News:

[August 2026] New preprint on multi-byte prediction in latent tokenizer based language models.

[July 2026] We will organize a tutorial on tokenization for LLMs at EMNLP 2026.

[July 2026] Paper on evaluating AI-assisted scientific writing accepted to COLM 2026!

[July 2026] Organized the 2nd edition of CustomNLP4U at ACL 2026.

[June 2026] Giving an invited talk at Midwest ML symposium.

[June 2026] New preprint on evaluating AI-assisted scientific writing.

[May 2026] New preprint on a clinical QA benchmark: OGCareBench.

[May 2026] New preprint on a hallucination benchmark: HalluWorld.

[May 2026] Tokenization Workshop will hold a second edition at COLM 2026 🎉.

[May 2026] New ACL findings paper on Glauber Dynamics-based diffusion LMs. 

[April 2026] Position paper on a unified definition of hallucination accepted at ICML 2026!

[April 2026] Three papers accepted to ACL 2026 (Findings)! Updated versions out soon.

[March 2026] New preprint out on scaling laws for RAG-considerate pretraining.

[February 2026] LayRA is now accepted at TMLR! 

[February 2026] ClinicalTrialsHub accepted at EACL 2026 (Demo Track)! 

[February 2026] New preprint out on benchmarking audio LMs on music understanding: BASS.

[January 2026] Paper on AI assistance in scientific writing now accepted at IUI 2026!

[December 2025] New preprint on a unified definition of hallucination.

[December 2025] New preprint on a system demonstration for finding and analyzing clinicial trial information: ClinicalTrialsHub.

[November 2025] New preprint on AI assistance in scientific writing.

[November 2025] New preprint out on reasoning for instruction hierarchy resolution: VerIH.

[November 2025] Recognized as an outstanding Senior Area Chair at EMNLP 2025. 

[October 2025] New preprint out on evaluating research ideas: ScholarEval.

[September 2025] New preprint out on continually adding new languages to multilingual LMs.

[August 2025] I will be at COLM to co-organize MELT workshop.

[August 2025] Steering Off Course wins SAC Highlights award at ACL 2025! 🎉

[July 2025] Co-organizing Tokenization Workshop at ICML 2025! Also (co-)presenting BLAB at ML4Audio Workshop, Steering Off Course at Actionable Interp Workshop, and Flexitokens at TokShop.

[July 2025] New paper out on making tokenization more flexible to adaptation: FlexiTokens.

[July 2025] Personalization survey accepted at COLM 2025!

[July 2025] Three papers now accepted at ACL 2025 (Steering Off Course (Oral [top 8%], Panel [top 0.8%]), TESS 2 (Oral), HybridPref)!

[May 2025] New paper out on benchmarking audio LMs: BLAB!

[April 2025] New survey paper on personalized preference learning. 

[April 2025] New paper on brittleness of steering methods: Steering Off Course.

[March 2025] Invited talk at UPenn CLunch Seminar.

[February 2025] New paper on diffusion LMs: TESS 2.

[January 2025] Three papers (ComPO, GroundCocoa, and RewardBench) now accepted at NAACL 2025 (see you in New Mexico)!

[November 2024] Will be in Miami to organize Customizable NLP @ EMNLP 2024! Proceedings now live here. 

[October 2024] New paper on personalization: ComPO.

[October 2024] New paper on preference annotation: HybridPref.

[September 2024] MAGNET and WildTeaming now accepted at NeurIPS 2024!

[August 2024] Moved to Columbus and started at OSU!

[August 2024] Dolma won the best resource paper award at ACL 2024! 🎉

[July 2024] The website for the Customizable NLP workshop (to be held at EMNLP 2024) is up, including the CFP. Submit your papers!

[July 2024] New paper: Improving multilingual fairness of language models (MAGNET).

[July 2024] New paper on Contextual Noncompliance!

[June 2024] New paper WildTeaming on arXiv!

[May 2024] Dolma is accepted at ACL 2024!

[May 2024] Presented Gen-Z at ICLR 2024 in Vienna.

[April 2024] Invited talk on language model refusals at MilaNLP. 

[March 2024] Two papers accepted at NAACL 2024!

[March 2024] Reward-bench paper is on arXiv!

[March 2024] Gave a guest lecture on mitigating societal harms of LLMs at KAIST.

[February 2024] Dolma is on arXiv!

[January 2024] Paper on Generative zero-shot classification accepted at ICLR 2024! 

[December 2023] Giving an invited talk at the IndoML symposium on December 22nd, 2023. Come say hi!

[November 2023] I am co-teaching a tutorial on mitigating societal harms in LLMs at EMNLP 2023. See you in Singapore!

[November 2023] New preprint out on zero-shot text classification.

[November 2023] New preprint out on preserving author perspectives in news summarization.

[October 2023] I’m co-organizing a workshop on Customizable NLP at EMNLP 2024! Details forthcoming.

[October 2023] A paper accepted at EMNLP 2023! An updated camera ready soon.

[August 2023] Successfully defended my thesis 🥳. 

[August 2023] Started at AI2 as a Young Investigator. 

[July 2023] Our paper Minding Language Models' (Lack of) Theory of Mind: A Plug-and-Play Multi-Character Belief Tracker got outstanding paper awards at ACL 2023 and ICML 2023 Theory of Mind Workshop 🎉.

[July 2023] I will join Ohio State University as an Assistant Professor in the CS Department in Fall 2024!

[July 2023] I will spend a year as a postdoc at Allen Institute for AI working with Hanna Hajishirzi and Noah Smith!

[May 2023] Two new preprints on arXiv: Do All Languages Cost the Same? Tokenization in the Era of Commercial Language Models and SSD-2: Scaling and Inference-time Fusion of Diffusion Language Models.

[May 2023] 3 papers accepted at ACL 2023! Camera-ready versions out soon.

[May 2023] Vidhisha presented our survey paper at EACL in Croatia!

[April 2023] New preprint out on arXiv: Assessing Language Model Deployment with Risk Cards.

[January 2023] Our survey paper got accepted at EACL 2023! The camera-ready version out soon. 

[December 2022] New preprint out of arXiv: On the Blind Spots of Model-Based Evaluation Metrics for Text Generation

[October 2022] New preprint out on arXiv: SSD-LM: Semi-autoregressive Simplex-based Diffusion Language Model for Text Generation and Modular Control.

[October 2022] Passed my thesis proposal. I am now a Ph.D. candidate!

[October 2022] Gave an invited talk about my latest research at Google.

[October 2022] New preprint out on arXiv: "Language Generation Models Can Cause Harm: So What Can We Do About It? An Actionable Survey".

[October 2022] Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2022! arXiv versions out soon. 

[June 2022] My research is now funded by Google PhD Fellowship!

[May 2022] New preprint out on arXiv: "Constrained Sampling from Language Models via Langevin Dynamics in Embedding Spaces".

[April 2022] Gave a tutorial at TheWebConf 2022 on "Mitigating Societal Harms of Large Language Models: A Case Study in Language Generation"

[September 2021] Paper on "Controlled Text Generation as Continuous Optimization with Multiple Constraints" accepted at NeurIPS 2021!

[September 2021] Short paper on "Improving the Diversity of Unsupervised Paraphrasing with Embedding Outputs" accepted at MRL@EMNLP 2021!

[May 2021] Short paper on "Machine Translation into Low Resource Language Varieties" accepted at ACL 2021! arXiv preprint coming soon. 

[March 2021] Paper on "An Exploration of Data Augmentation Techniques for Improving English to Tigrinya Translation" accepted at AfricaNLP@EACL 2021. Preprint coming soon.  

[November 2020] Paper on "End-to-End Differentiable GANs for Text Generation" accepted at the ICBINB@NeurIPS 2020. 

[November 2020] Invited Talk on "Language Generation with Continuous Outputs" at G-Research, London. 

[Aug 2020] Teaching Assistant for the brand new course on Multilingual NLP (Fall 2020) at CMU.

[May 2020] Paper on "A Deep Reinforced Model for Cross-Lingual Summarization with Bilingual Semantic Similarity Reward" accepted at  WNGT@ACL 2020.

[December 2019] Going to Facebook AI Research, Seattle (virtually) for the summer.

[November 2019] Presented two posters at EMNLP 2019 in Hong Kong

[September 2019] Paper on "A Margin-based Loss with Synthetic Negative Samples for Continuous-output Machine Translation" accepted at EMNLP-WNGT workshop!

[September 2019] Teaching Assistant for Algorithms for NLP (Fall 2019)

[August 2019] Paper on "Topics to Avoid: Demoting Latent Confounds in Text Classification" accepted at EMNLP 2019!

[May 2019] Headed to Facebook for the summer as a research intern in their conversational AI team in Menlo Park. 

[December 2018] Paper on "Von Mises-Fisher Loss for Training Sequence to Sequence Models with Continuous Outputs" accepted at ICLR 2019!

[October 2018] Gave my first ever lecture in Algorithms for NLP on Structural Classification

[September 2018] Teaching Assistant for Algorithms for NLP (Fall 2018)

[August 2018] Gave a talk about my research on Machine Translation with Continuous Outputs at LTI's Student Research Symposium

[August 2017] Headed to CMU LTI to start my PhD