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Oct 2026Named to the World's Top 2% Scientists list (Stanford/Elsevier) for the third year.
Sep 2026Five papers accepted at NeurIPS 2026: Phase-wise tuning, MESCoder and RSU (multi-framework UI-to-code generation and repair), AnchorGen (diffusion language planning for chest X-ray reports), and Harbor (agentic evaluation infrastructure, Evaluations and Datasets Track).
Sep 2026Serving as Area Chair for the EACL 2026 Industry Track.
Aug 2026H-FedSN is accepted at NPJ Artificial Intelligence.
Aug 2026EGT-KG is accepted to EMNLP 2026 Industry Track.
May 2026Received the Google HE Faculty AI Fellowship.
May 2026DCM and MulFCoder, our multi-framework UI2Code papers, are accepted to ICML 2026.
May 2026Three papers accepted in the ACL 2026 cycle: LLM-Guided Tsetlin (Findings), FROST and Are LLMs Economically Viable (Industry Track).
Apr 2026Distribution-aware Re-representations is accepted to SIGIR 2026.
Apr 2026Trustworthy Agent Network is accepted to the KDD 2026 Blue Sky Track.
Jan 2026GRO-RAG is accepted to ICLR 2026.
Jan 2026Our culturally aware harmful meme detection paper is accepted to WWW 2026.

Collaboration

I am open to collaboration.

I have been lucky to work with wonderful students and collaborators, and some of my favorite projects started with a cold email. If you are a student interested in research, I am always glad to chat. We usually begin with a small, well-scoped problem and work toward a publication together, and I will do my best to support you along the way. Please email me your CV and a short note about what you are curious about.

If you work in industry or academia and our interests overlap, I would love to find something to build together.

Students I have worked with

More than 20 students have worked with me on research projects, and many of them moved on to Ph.D. programs. Venues in parentheses are papers they first-authored or co-authored during our collaboration; arrows show where they went next.

Muran Yu · Stanford University → Stanford Ph.D. (EMNLP 2026 Industry)
Yulin Xu · UC Irvine → USC CS Ph.D. (KDD 2025, ICML 2026, SIGIR 2026)
Yuangang Li · USC → UC Irvine CS Ph.D. (BIBM 2024, ICDM 2024 Workshop, AAAI 2026 ×2, Findings of ACL 2026, NeurIPS D&B 2026, NPJ AI 2026)
Tiange Xie · Columbia University → IIE, CAS Ph.D. (SciSec 2024, ICASSP 2026 ×2)
Mingyue Tang · USC → UVA SE Ph.D. → UIUC CS Ph.D. (SenSys 2022 poster, ACM ToSN 2022, ICCPS 2025)
Gautam Siddharth Kashyap · Jamia Hamdard → Macquarie University CS Ph.D. (ICASSP 2025 ×2, ASONAM 2025, EMNLP 2025 ×2, EACL 2026 ×2, WWW 2026, ACL 2026, IEEE TAI 2026)
Berend Gort · Columbia University → UPC CS Ph.D. (AAAI Bridge 2023)
Kai Shu · USC (ACM MM 2024, BIBM 2024)
Xinyuan Huang · University of Toronto → University of Toronto CS Ph.D. (BigData 2025 ×2, BIBM 2025 ×2, ICASSP 2026)
Binrui Wu · Fudan University (KDD 2025, ACM MM 2025 Oral, NeurIPS 2025, ICML 2026)
Siyuan Chen · University of Bristol (NeurIPS 2025, ICLR 2026)
Haoran Ma · Harvard University (ICML 2026, NeurIPS 2026 ×3)
Linxiao Li · University of Sydney (ICML 2026, NeurIPS 2026 ×2)
Haochen Sui · University of Michigan (ACM MM 2025 ×2, NeurIPS 2026 ×2)
Qi Sun · University of Melbourne (SIGIR 2026)
Yidong Wu · Imperial College London (NeurIPS 2025)
Ebad Shabbir · DSEU-Okhla → MBZUAI (EMNLP 2025 ×2, EACL 2026, ICASSP 2026, ACL 2026 ×2, IEEE TAI 2026)
Rafiq Ali · DSEU-Okhla → MBZUAI (ICASSP 2025, EMNLP 2025 ×2, EACL 2026, ACL 2026)
Harsh Joshi · Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering → UC San Diego M.S. (ICASSP 2025, EACL 2026, IEEE TAI 2026)
Daniel Koo · The Nueva School (high school) (ICWSM 2026 Workshop)