Academic Service & Peer Review

Peer Review & Publications

Undergraduate ML researcher at the University of Maryland reviewing for NeurIPS, ICML, EMNLP, COLM, and AIES (AAAI/ACM).

1Area Chair
1Program Committee
10+Reviewer roles
4Accepted
3Under review

Reviewing & Program Service

Selected roles across peer-reviewed conferences and workshops. Full review records are available on request.

Area Chair

EMNLP 2026 Workshop

2026

GroundLMGrounding Language Models

Area Chair.

Program Committee

AIES 2026

2026
AI EthicsSafetySocietal Impact

Program Committee (AAAI/ACM) evaluating papers on AI ethics, safety, and societal impact.

Reviewer

NeurIPS 2026

2026
Main Track — EthicsEvaluations & Datasets — Ethics

Ethics Reviewer for the NeurIPS 2026 Main Track and Evaluations & Datasets Track.

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop

2026

NewInMLNew Frontiers in Machine Learning

NeurIPS 2026 Workshop

2026

MATH-AIMathematical Reasoning and AI

ICML 2026 Workshop

2026

AIWILDAgents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond

ICML 2026 Workshop

2026

SCALEScalable Learning and Optimization for Efficient Multimodal AI Agents

COLM 2026 Workshop

2026

Efficient Reasoning

COLM 2026 Workshop

2026

Social SimSocial Simulation with LLMs

EMNLP 2026 Workshop

2026

REALMReliable & Explainable Language Models

NeurIPS 2025 Workshop

2025

Efficient Reasoning

Empirical Research (ER)

NeurIPS 2025 Workshop

2025

ML4PSMachine Learning for Physical Sciences

Publications & Submissions

Accepted work and the active research pipeline — transparently labeled for verification.

Bidirectional Affective Synchrony in Parent-Child Conversations Using Machine Learning

Developmental Psychobiology 67(S1), e70105 · First author

Published2026

A Machine-Learning Approach to Gaze Coding in Mobile Eye-Tracking

APA Convention (Division 07 — Developmental Psychology)

Accepted2026

METMAP: A Machine-Learning Approach for Mobile Eye-Tracking Gaze Coding

ISDP 2026 — 59th Annual Meeting (International Society for Developmental Psychobiology) · Oral presentation · Paper O3.6 · 11:50–12:00

Accepted2026

ISDP Top 50 Abstracts Travel Award

International Society for Developmental Psychobiology · Highly selective, merit-based travel grant for top abstracts worldwide.

Award2025

Visual Artifact Separability in Self-Supervised Representations

ACCV 2026 · First author

Under Review2026

From Personas to Simulated Users: A Fitness-for-Purpose Survey

AAAI 2027 — AI for Social Impact Special Track · Co-author · 41-author collaborative survey

Under Review2026

Before You Scale: The Cost of Supervision Mismatch in PRM Distillation

COLM 2026 — Efficient Reasoning Workshop · First author

Accepted2026

METMAP: Mobile Eye-Tracking Processing Pipeline

Behavior Research Methods

Under Review2026

MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents

arXiv:2608.04205 [cs.AI] · Co-author · Population-scale persona agent simulation infrastructure

Preprint2026

Technical Evaluation & Mentorship

Additional evaluation and editorial service beyond peer review.

White House AI Presidential Challenge

2026

State & Regional Judge — evaluated student AI applications and technical architectures under the US AI literacy and development initiative.

AWS Machine Learning University — Faculty AI Abstract Reviewer

2026

Selected by AWS to review AI research abstracts submitted by faculty from universities across the country — Spring 2026 edition, Tuskegee University (AL).

10+ National AI Hackathons — Technical Judge

2024–Present

Expert panelist auditing software architecture and model quality at Anthropic × Maryland, HackGT, HackTX, TartanHacks, Bitcamp, HackDuke, and Hacklytics.

COVID Information Commons Student Paper Challenge

2025

Judge evaluating student COVID-19 research papers against the NSF-funded CIC research ecosystem criteria.

International Student Research Mentorship (ISRM)

2026–Present

AI research mentor guiding 8 students through independent ML research, experimental design, and reproducibility.

Verified Reviewing Record

Roles are verifiable via my OpenReview profile and Google Scholar. Further verification available on request.

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