NeurIPS 2026 Workshop
2026AIDaRAI Data Readiness for Scientific Discovery
Area Chair.
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).
Reviewing & Program Service
Selected roles across peer-reviewed conferences and workshops. Full review records are available on request.
Area Chair
EMNLP 2026 Workshop
2026GroundLMGrounding Language Models
Area Chair.
Program Committee
AIES 2026
2026AI EthicsSafetySocietal Impact
Program Committee (AAAI/ACM) evaluating papers on AI ethics, safety, and societal impact.
Reviewer
ACM Transactions on Computing Education
2026NeurIPS 2026 Workshop
2026AIWILDAgents in the Wild
NeurIPS 2026
2026Main Track — EthicsEvaluations & Datasets — Ethics
Ethics Reviewer for the NeurIPS 2026 Main Track and Evaluations & Datasets Track.
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop
2026ML4PSMachine Learning and the Physical Sciences
Reviewer for the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026.
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop
2026NewInMLNew Frontiers in Machine Learning
NeurIPS 2026 Workshop
2026MATH-AIMathematical Reasoning and AI
ICML 2026 Workshop
2026AIWILDAgents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond
ICML 2026 Workshop
2026SCALEScalable Learning and Optimization for Efficient Multimodal AI Agents
COLM 2026 Workshop
2026Efficient Reasoning
COLM 2026 Workshop
2026Social SimSocial Simulation with LLMs
EMNLP 2026 Workshop
2026REALMReliable & Explainable Language Models
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
2025Efficient Reasoning
Empirical Research (ER)
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
2025ML4PSMachine 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 meeting abstract
The Fluency–Reasoning Dissociation in Depth-Pruned LLMs: A Representational Geometry Perspective
NeurIPS 2026 — NeurReps Workshop (Proceedings Track [Archival]) · Sole author · Accepted to the archival Proceedings Track
MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents
AWS-MLU Symposium Fall 2026 (Howard University & Amazon HQ2) · Accepted for presentation · 2-day symposium hosted at Howard University and Amazon HQ2
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
Before You Scale: The Cost of Supervision Mismatch in PRM Distillation
COLM 2026 — Efficient Reasoning Workshop · First author
Accepted2026
ISDP Top 50 Abstracts Travel Award
International Society for Developmental Psychobiology · Highly selective, merit-based travel grant for top abstracts worldwide.
Award2025
MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents
arXiv:2608.04205 [cs.AI] (Submitted to Nature) · Co-author · Population-scale persona agent simulation infrastructure (submitted to Nature)
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
AgentPersonaBench: Benchmarking Persona-Driven User Simulation
ACL Rolling Review · Co-author · Multi-institution benchmark consortium
Under Review2026
METMAP: Mobile Eye-Tracking Processing Pipeline
Behavior Research Methods · Co-author
Under Review2026
Technical Evaluation & Mentorship
Additional evaluation and editorial service beyond peer review.
National AI Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot
2026Appointed to the NAIRR Pilot review panel to assess AI research proposals and computing-resource allocation requests.
White House AI Presidential Challenge
2026State & Regional Judge — evaluated student AI applications and technical architectures under the US AI literacy and development initiative.
AWS Machine Learning University — Research Presenter & Faculty Reviewer
2025–2026Selected to present MatrAIx at the 2-day AWS-MLU Fall 2026 Symposium (Howard University & Amazon HQ2); served as Faculty AI Abstract Reviewer for Spring 2026 edition (Tuskegee University).
10+ National AI Hackathons — Technical Judge
2024–PresentExpert panelist auditing software architecture and model quality at Anthropic × Maryland, HackGT, HackTX, TartanHacks, Bitcamp, HackDuke, and Hacklytics.
COVID Information Commons Student Paper Challenge
2025Judge evaluating student COVID-19 research papers against the NSF-funded CIC research ecosystem criteria.
International Student Research Mentorship (ISRM)
2026–PresentAI 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.