Nov 2025: Our paper on mitigating hallucinations in LLMs using causal reasoning has been accepted to AAAI 2026!
Oct 2025: Our new paper “From Image Generation to Infrastructure Design” has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025 Workshop!
Sep 2025: We have a new paper introducing CareerPooler, a generative AI-powered pool-table metaphor system for career exploration.
Jul 2025: Our new paper "Frontend Diffusion" has been accepted to IEEE VL/HCC 2025!
Jul 2025: Our new paper "JailDAM" has been accepted to COLM 2025!
Jun 2025: We have a new paper accepted to ECML PKDD 2025 on leveraging LLMs for few-shot graph OOD detection.
May 2025: We have a new paper on zero-shot graph OOD detection using foundation models (GLIP-OOD).
May 2025: We have a new paper introducing GOE-LLM, a framework using LLMs to generate synthetic OOD nodes for graph OOD detection without requiring real OOD data.
Research Experience
Currently a research assistant at HCIL (UMD), supervised by Zijian Ding; and at FORTIS Lab (USC), supervised by Prof. Yue Zhao. Collaborating with Prof. Xiyang Hu, Prof. Xiang Yan, Prof. Yuan Li, and Prof. Fumeng Yang.
Education
Master's student in Human-Computer Interaction @ University of Maryland, College Park
Background
Research interests: Using human-centered methods to design, develop, and evaluate interactive systems that empower people to effectively leverage, adapt, and extend AI in their work and daily lives, to enhance their capabilities and augment their cognition.
Miscellany
Actively seeking for 2026 Fall PhD position. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if my profile interests you!