18 entries
Jul 2026
Our position paper — *Breaking the Dual Curse of Multilingual AI Requires Socio-Technical Guardrails, Not Post-Hoc Alignment* — has been accepted to the ICML 2026 Position Paper Track.
Jul 2026
Our paper *DIA-HARM* received the **Social Impact Paper Award** at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) in San Diego.
Jun 2026
Excited to attend ACL 2026 in San Diego — presenting DIA-HARM in the Main Conference and serving as Area Chair.
May 2026
Our BLUFF benchmark — spanning 79 languages and 202K+ samples — has been accepted at the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2026), Datasets and Benchmarks Track.
May 2026
I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation in Informatics at Penn State University on May 11, 2026. Formal conferral will follow in August.
May 2026
Honored to share that I will be joining the Department of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor starting August 2026.
Apr 2026
Honored to receive the IST Ph.D. Award for Research Excellence — the highest research honor for post-comprehensive Ph.D. students at the Penn State College of IST.
Apr 2026
ACL'26 Main Conference Paper Accepted. [DIA-HARM: Dialectal Disparities in Harmful Content Detection Across 50 English Dialects](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05318).
Mar 2026
Our BLUFF benchmark for multilingual AI detection is getting attention — Slator covered the work in "New Benchmark Tests AI Detection Across Languages and Translation."
Mar 2026
Honored to serve as an Area Chair (OpenReview) for the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026) in San Diego, California.
Feb 2026
Representing Penn State as one of 10 global finalists in the 2026 Amazon Nova AI Challenge, competing as a Red Team to probe AI coding agents for vulnerabilities and security risks.
Feb 2026
Invited to facilitate a Lunch & Learn session on "Ethical Use of AI in Research and Teaching" at St. George's University on March 27, 2026.
Feb 2026
Honored to be invited to Dagstuhl Seminar 26252 on "From Speech Translation to Multilingual Communication – New Research Challenges" at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany (June 14–17, 2026).
Nov 2023
EMNLP'23 Main Conference Paper Accepted. [MULTITuDE - Large-Scale Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection Benchmark](https://2023.emnlp.org/program/accepted_main_conference/).
Nov 2023
EMNLP'23 Main Conference Paper Accepted . [Fighting Fire with Fire - The Dual Role of LLMs in Crafting and Detecting Elusive Disinformation](https://2023.emnlp.org/program/accepted_main_conference/).
Aug 2023
Accepted [PAN-African Professional Alliances](https://panapapsu.org/executive-board/) IT Officer Executive Board Appointment.
Aug 2022
Accepted [Graduate Student association in the College of Information Science and Technology's](https://sites.psu.edu/istgrad/) President Executive Board Appointment.
May 2022
EMNLP'23 Conference Workshop Paper Accepted. [Detecting False Claims in Low-Resource Regions - A Case Study of Caribbean Islands](https://aclanthology.org/events/acl-2022/)