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Feb 17, 2026 🎀 Gave a talk on our paper on emergent coordination in multi-agent simulations with my coauthors Gian Marco and Mahdi, at the Complex Data Lab at McGill/Mila.
Feb 02, 2026 πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Started a part-time internship with Microsoft IDEAS Research, continuing my summer project on an LLM-based agentic organizational simulation framework.
Jan 23, 2026 🎀 Gave a talk on the Spiral of Silence simulation paper at the Community Twin reading group at the University of Maryland.
Jan 15, 2026 πŸŽ‰ My co-first-authored paper on emergent coordination dynamics among networked generative agents has been accepted to The Web Conference (WWW 2026).
Oct 27, 2025 πŸ€“ I will be serving as a Local Chair for ICWSM 2026, to be held in Los Angeles!
Sep 18, 2025 🌟 Paper with my mentee Zhiyi on AI-generated political images on X/Twitter received best student paper honorable mention at the ACM HyperText Conference (HT 2025).
Jun 16, 2025 🌟 My co-first-authored paper on online susceptibility paradox received best paper honorable mention at ICWSM 2025. Featured on USC homepage and USC ISI homepage.
May 19, 2025 πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ’» Started an internship with Microsoft Research and Microsoft IDEAS in Redmond, focusing on multimodal human–AI interaction and workflows.
Apr 23, 2025 πŸ† Received the USC ShowCAIS 2025 Best Doctoral Poster Presentation Award for my work auditing political exposure bias in algorithmic recommendations on X (Twitter).