Received an Outstanding Reviewer Award at EACL 2026!
Jinhao's paper accepted to ICML 2026!
Rinki's paper accepted to TrustNLP @ ACL 2026!
Passed my Ph.D. proposal defense and advanced to candidacy!
VIGNETTE accepted to ACL Main (top 15% of accepted papers)!
Talent or Luck accepted to ACL Findings!
A paper, led by Jinhao, accepted to AAAI!
Congratulations to Rinki for defending her MS CS Thesis!
Two papers accepted to EMNLP Findings, led by Jinhao and Prommy!
Attended the Mentorship Research Showcase Event at TJ High School with my advisor, Ziwei, and mentee, Mahika!
Presented two posters at MASC-SLL in Penn State!
Received the OpenAI Researcher Access Program Award!
Chennai!
India Trip in winter!
Attended EMNLP in Miami and presented BiasDora!
Passed the Comprehensive Exam!
Attended AIES in San Jose and gave a talk on the Contact Hypothesis paper + visited Stanford!
The 'BiasDora' paper accepted at EMNLP Findings!
Attended the Ethics Workshop at UW organized by Aylin.
The 'Contact Hypothesis' paper accepted at AIES!
Moved to Seattle for the summer to work with Aylin at the University of Washington.
Completed my breadth requirements for the PhD!
Attended Charith's graduation playing his parent.
Received Best Paper Award at MASC-SLL, Johns Hopkins, Maryland for the 'Contact Hypothesis' paper!
Received the CAHMP award for Summer 2024!
Gave a talk at SouthNLP + roadtrip to Emory University, Georgia + Kings Dominion!
Went to Scotland to present the paper 'SALSA' at ECIR, visited Glasgow, 'Edinbruh', Sterling, and 'Fawkirk'!
Visited my cousins in London, went to Kings Cross, and the Warner Bros Studio Tour!
Attended Zakir Khan's show at Madison Square Garden, New York!
New York yet again!
Attended Piyush Mishra's show in DC, got the signed copy of his book!
Took the AIEPS course in the spring semester at Arlington campus.
Stayed in India for the winter, landed on a snow covered DC on the 22nd!
The 'SALSA' paper accepted at ECIR!
Went to Singapore to present 'Global Voices, Local Biases' at EMNLP; did a lot of things there + Universal Studios!
A day trip to Shenandoah.
The 'Global Voices, Local Biases' paper accepted at EMNLP!
Joined the GMNLP group at Mason!
Semester beginning dinner with Ziwei and the lab.
Visited Montreal, Canada! Presented the paper 'True and Fair' at AIES.
Saw the sunrise on Brooklyn, New York again, with Angel!
Attended MTMA and LT4CPR at Mason.
The 'True and Fair' paper accepted at AIES!
Visited Baltimore!
Attended MASC-SLL'23 at the Arlington Campus.
Received the Summer Graduate Research Award 2023 at Mason!
Received two Research Excellence Awards at DTU!
Visited New York (Also Columbia, PACE & CUNY in addition to the touristy places)!
Attended Preslav Nakov's talk at Mason on Misinformation!
Returned to Fairfax and began my second semester.
Flew to India to stay with my family and my dog, Jim!
Had a Winter Lunch at Mosaic with the NLP Lab!
Had a Fall Break Lunch with the Human Info Lab at Mason!
Started working with Prof. Ziwei Zhu!
Joined the Human Info Lab at Mason!
Moved into my new Apartment!
Arrived in the States!
Received an admit letter from Mason!