| Apr 27, 2026 | Released BibTeX Verifier, an open-source, in-browser tool that checks .bib entries against CrossRef and Semantic Scholar—useful for catching metadata mistakes and AI-hallucinated citations. Everything runs locally; only titles are sent to public APIs. Live app · GitHub |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Serving as PC member and reviewer for top-tier venues!  PC Member for WWW 2026, CIKM 2026/2025/2024, KDD 2026, NeurIPS 2026. Reviewer for ICLR 2026, NeurIPS 2025 (DynaFront), TKDE 2025/2024, PETRA 2024 (ETHER-AI). |
| Mar 15, 2026 | Delivered guest lectures at UIC: CS516 (Responsible Data Science) on Generative AI and Fairness, and CS418 (Intro to Data Science) on Generative AI and Multimodal Data Management.  |
| Mar 01, 2026 | “NeedleDB: A Generative-AI Based System for Accurate and Efficient Image Retrieval using Complex NL Queries” has been submitted to VLDB 2026!  |
| Feb 01, 2026 | “Needle: A Generative AI-Powered Multi-modal Database for Answering Complex Natural Language Queries” has been submitted to KDD 2026!  |
| Jan 15, 2026 | Started a Ph.D. Research Internship at Microsoft (CodeAI team)!  Working on mitigating hallucination in LLMs and GenAI code agents including Copilot and Codex. |
| Dec 15, 2025 |  Received my M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Chicago, awarded en route to my Ph.D.! |
| Oct 15, 2025 | 🎓 Successfully passed my Ph.D. preliminary exam! My thesis proposal “Generative AI for Multimodal Data Management” has been approved. Excited to continue advancing research in this cutting-edge area! 🚀 |
| Jun 01, 2025 | Our paper “An Efficient Matrix Multiplication Algorithm for Accelerating Inference in Binary and Ternary Neural Networks” has been accepted to ICML 2025! 🎉 This work achieves 24x speedup over NumPy baseline and 2.5x improvement on Quantized LLMs. |
| Nov 01, 2024 | Our work on optimized inference for binary and ternary neural networks is now available on arXiv! This groundbreaking research achieves significant speedup improvements for quantized LLMs. |
| Aug 26, 2024 | Chameleon (full research paper) and FairEM360 (demo paper) have been published and presented in VLDB 2024 |
| May 15, 2024 | Coverage-based Data-centric Approaches for Responsible and Trustworthy AI has published in Data Engineering Bulletin! |
| Dec 15, 2023 | “Graph Pattern Mining Paradigms: Consolidation and Renewed Bearing” has been published in HiPC 2023! 🔗 This collaborative work explores new directions in graph pattern mining and distributed computing. |