I am currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati, specializing in Natural Language Processing. I work in the CincyNLP, advised by Dr. Tianyu Jiang. My research focuses on interpretability and explainability of large language models, multimodality, semantics and linguistics, through the lens of figurative speech.
Recent News 🚨
June 2026 — Our paper has been accepted to TMLR. ⭐
May 2026 — I will be serving as a reviewer for NeuRIPS 2026. 📝
May 2026 — Happy to receive the Best Poster Award in the CS Symposium. 🏆
April 2026 — Three of my papers got accepted to ACL 2026 Main Conference. ⭐⭐⭐
March 2026 — Honored to receive the University Research Council (URC 2026) Award. 🏆
February 2026 — Our paper got accepted to EACL 2026 Main Conference. ⭐
Education 🎓
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PhD in Computer Science
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MS in Computer Science
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MS in Applied Mathematics
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BS in Physics
Publications 📄
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A Geometric Lens on LLM Abilities through Joint Embedding Item Response Theory
In Proceedings of the Transaction of Machine Learning Research (TMLR)
TMLR -
MetFuse: Figurative Fusion between Metonymy and Metaphor
To Appear In Proceedings of the The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).
ACL 2026 Main Conference -
Exploring Concreteness Through a Figurative Lens
To Appear In Proceedings of the The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).
ACL 2026 Main Conference -
Evaluating the Impact of Verbal Multiword Expressions on Machine Translation
To Appear In Proceedings of the The 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2026).
ACL 2026 Main Conference -
A Computational Approach to Visual Metonymy
In Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2026).
EACL 2026 Main Conference -
ConMeC: A Dataset for Metonymy Resolution with Common Nouns
In Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025).
NAACL 2025 Main Conference -
Common Noun Metonymy Resolution Using Large Language Models
MS Thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2025
MS Thesis
Preprints
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Cross-Lingual Steering for Figurative Language Generation
arXiv:2605.30443 (2026)
arXiv
Experience 🥼
eXtended Reality (XR) Lab, College of Design Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP)
CS 5034/6034: Natural Language Processing (Fall 2024)
CS 4033/6033: Artificial Intelligence (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)
CS 4071: Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2025)
Awards 🏆
CS Symposium, University of Cincinnati, Department of Computer Science
April 2026
University of Cincinnati, Department of Research
March 2026
University of Cincinnati, Department of Computer Science
April 2025
University of Cincinnati, Department of Computer Science
April 2025