🧑‍💻 About Me

I am a second-year PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, advised by Prof. Soheil Feizi.
My research focuses on failure modes in multimodal large language models, with the broader goal of understanding and improving their reliability.


đź“° News & Updates

🎉 (Aug 2025) [New Paper] “Gaming Tool Preferences in Agentic LLMs” accepted to EMNLP 2025 (Main Track) – arXiv

🎉 (Apr 2025) [New Preprint] “Chain-of-Defensive-Thought: Structured Reasoning Elicits Robustness in Large Language Models against Reference Corruption” – arXiv

🎉 (Mar 2025) [New Preprint] “Seeing What’s Not There: Spurious Correlation in Multimodal LLMs” – arXiv

📢 (Dec 2024) Co-organizing the “Spurious Correlation and Shortcut Learning Workshop” at ICLR 2025 – Read more

🎓 (Aug 2024) Started my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Maryland

🎉 (Jun 2024) [New Paper] “Decompose-and-Compose: A Compositional Approach to Mitigating Spurious Correlation” presented at CVPR 2024 – Read more

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