■ August 2026 📄 Our paper "SCORE: Specificity, Context Utilization, Robustness, and Relevance for Reference-Free LLM Evaluation" was accepted at EMNLP 2026.
■ June 2026 📄 Our paper "Helping the Helper: LLM-Assisted Problem Articulation for Older Adults Seeking Technology Support" was accepted at ASSETS 2026.
■ May 2026 🏆 Received the CoE Graduate Student Award for Teaching Assistant Excellence from the College of Engineering at UIC.
■ March 2026 🎤 Gave a short research talk at the IDEAL workshop on “Automation in the Workforce” at Loyola University Chicago.
■ September 2025 🎤 Gave an invited talk on "Artificial Intelligence for Patent Understanding and Generation" at Cardiff University, UK.
■ September 2025 🎤 Attended the DPI meeting at Cardiff University, UK.
■ August 2025 📄 Our paper "DesignCLIP: Multimodal Learning with CLIP for Design Patent Understanding" was accepted at EMNLP 2025.
■ July 2025 🎤 Attended ACL 2025 virtually to present our paper “A Survey on Patent Analysis: From NLP to Multimodal AI”.
■ May 2025 💼 Started summer internship at Argonne National Laboratory as a W.J. Cody Associate.
■ May 2025 📄 Our paper “A Survey on Patent Analysis: From NLP to Multimodal AI” was accepted at ACL 2025.
■ February 2025 📄 Our paper “How Older Adults Communicate their Technology Problems: Challenges and Design Opportunities” was accepted at CHI LBW 2025.
■ January 2025 📄 Our paper “Fact-Based Counter Narrative Generation to Combat Hate Speech” was accepted at The Web Conference 2025.
■ January 2025 🎓 Teaching Assistant for CS 418: Introduction to Data Science at UIC.
■ December 2024 🎤 Attended NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver, Canada, to present our paper “IMPACT: A Large-scale Integrated Multimodal Patent Analysis and Creation Dataset for Design Patents”.
■ September 2024 📄 Our paper “IMPACT: A Large-scale Integrated Multimodal Patent Analysis and Creation Dataset for Design Patents” was accepted at NeurIPS 2024.
■ August 2023 🎓 Joined University of Illinois Chicago as a PhD student.