News
- Oct 2026: Recognized as a Top Reviewer at NeurIPS 2026
- Oct 2026: Served as reviewer for ICLR 2027
- Oct 2026: Served as reviewer for the October cycle of ACL Rolling Review
- Oct 2026: Designed and delivered a 3-hour lecture on CNNs for CSCE 4201
- Oct 2026: Designed and delivered a 3-hour lecture on NLP for CSCE 4201
- Oct 2026: Designed and delivered a 3-hour lecture on Transformers for CSCE 4201
- Sep 2026: Gave a presentation on “MixLLM: LLM Quantization with Global Mixed-precision between Output-features and Highly-efficient System Design” at UNT's LLaVi Lab AI Seminar
- Sep 2026: Towards Visual Query Segmentation in the Wild paper accepted to NeurIPS 2026 (co-first author)
- Aug 2026: Served as reviewer for the August cycle of ACL Rolling Review
- Aug 2026: Poly-FEVER paper accepted to EMNLP Findings 2026
- May–Jul 2026: Served as external reviewer for ACM SEC 2026
- Summer 2026: Served as Academic Coordinator and Research Mentor for nine undergraduates in UNT's NSF REU program
- Summer 2026: Gave guest lecture on Long-Context Evaluation of Large Language Models at UNT's NSF REU program
- May–Jun 2026: Served as reviewer for NeurIPS 2026
- May 2026: Gave invited talk on Responsible AI at the Presidential AI Challenge
- May 2026: Served as reviewer for the May cycle of ACL Rolling Review
- Apr 2026: Gave a presentation on “Gated Attention for Large Language Models: Non-linearity, Sparsity, and Attention-Sink-Free” at UNT's LLaVi Lab AI Seminar
- Feb–Mar 2026: Served as reviewer for ICML 2026
- Mar 2026: Harmful Factuality paper published in EACL Findings 2026
- 2026: Contributed to Amazon Research Awards TileRoute-Trainium as lead student researcher and proposal co-writer
- 2026: Started research collaboration with ORNL's AAIMS Group on 3D PDE operator learning
- 2026: Started collaboration with Amazon scientist Qian Qu on mixed-precision LLM inference using AWS Trainium
- Nov 2025: Gave a presentation on “SageAttention: Accurate 8-Bit Attention for Plug-and-play Inference Acceleration” at UNT's LLaVi Lab AI Seminar
- Oct 2025: Gave invited talk on “Responsible AI: The Hidden Curriculum” at AIxHEART
- Oct 2025: Presented DAM poster at UNT University Research Day
- May–Aug 2025: Served as reviewer for CIKM 2025
- Jun–Aug 2025: Served as external reviewer for ICDM 2025
- Jul 2025: Presented DAM at ACL Findings 2025
- May 2025: DAM paper accepted to ACL Findings 2025
- May 2025: Presented D2SO at IEEE MOST 2025
- Apr 2025: Won IEEE MOST Student Travel Grant Award
- Apr 2025: Participated in Women-in-Computing session at IEEE MOST 2025
- Mar 2025: Poly-FEVER benchmark published on arXiv
- Mar 2025: D2SO paper accepted to IEEE MOST 2025
- Mar 2025: Presented DAM poster at the North Texas Symposium on Generative AI at UT Arlington
- Feb 2025: Gave a presentation on “Large Language Diffusion Models” at UNT's LLaVi Lab AI Seminar
- Feb 2025: Passed PhD Qualifying Exam
- Feb 2025: HALO paper accepted to IEEE/ACM CHASE 2025
- Spring 2025: Served as TA for CSCE 5300 (64 graduate students)
- 2025: Joined UNT's Women in Data Science (WinDS) chapter
- Dec 2024: Volunteered at NSF CISE MSI Aspiring PI Workshop at UNT
- Dec 2024: ByteScience paper published at IEEE ICDMW 2024
- Nov 2024: Presented proposal on “Efficient Small Language Models for Edge Devices via Task-Aware Sparse Attention” at the NSF IUCRC eCAT meeting
- Oct 2024: Gave a presentation on “MoA: Mixture of Sparse Attention for Automatic Large Language Model Compression” at UNT's LLaVi Lab AI Seminar
- Oct 2024: Presented Poly-FEVER poster at UNT University Research Day
- Fall 2024: Served as TA for CSCE 5300 (79 graduate students)
- Jun–Sep 2024: Served as reviewer for ICDM 2024
- Summer 2024: Attended Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC-24)
- May 2024: Volunteered at IEEE MOST 2024
- May 2024: Participated in the AI Prompt-a-Thon at UT Arlington with Microsoft
- Apr 2024: Gave a presentation on “Small Language Model” at UNT's LLaVi Lab AI Seminar
- Mar 2024: Won First Place for Poly-FEVER poster at UNT Engineering Showcase
- 2024: Started serving as PI for ALCF Polaris computing allocations (5,000 node-hours per allocation)
- Oct–Dec 2023: Served as external reviewer for WWW 2024
- Oct–Nov 2023: Served as external reviewer for ICNC 2024
- Aug–Nov 2023: Served as external reviewer for AAAI 2024
- Sep–Oct 2023: Served as reviewer for IEEE ICPADS 2023
- Jul–Oct 2023: Served as external reviewer for EISA 2023
- Jul–Oct 2023: Served as external reviewer for Inscrypt 2023
- Jul–Sep 2023: Served as external reviewer for WACV 2024
- Aug 2023: Started PhD in Computer Science at UNT and joined Responsible AI Lab
Reviewing dates reflect conference review cycles; ranges may be inferred from submission and notification dates.