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Invited Reviewer

  • NeurIPS 2022-
  • ICML 2025- (Top Reviewer 2025, Silver Reviewer 2026)
  • ICLR 2025-
  • ICRA 2025
  • ECCV 24

Invited Talks

  • Energy-Based Transformers and the Future of Scaling
    • Cornell
    • University of Geneva (in-person workshop)
    • Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    • Hewlett Packard Labs
    • alphaXiv
    • Institute for Defense Analyses
    • Active Inference Institute
    • Harvard Kempner Institute
    • UIUC
    • ICLR 2026 (Oral)
  • Energy-Based Layers: Unlocking New Transformer Scaling Laws with Explicit Associative Memories
    • Meta
  • World Models
    • UIUC Advanced NLP Course (guest lecture) — slides, course
  • An Overview of Multimodal Models
    • Palantir Technologies
  • Intern Project
    • Palantir Technologies (including the Head of Machine Learning)
  • Cognitively Inspired Energy-Based World Models
    • UVA Undergraduate Engineering Research Symposium

Students Mentored

  • Michael Feng 2026-present
  • Kyle Nguyen 2025-present
  • Sid Dayaneni 2025-present
  • Soran Ghaderi 2025-present
  • Keshav Subramonian 2025-present
  • Justin Kobza 2025-present
  • Zhanyang Jin 2025-present
  • Avery Qian 2024-2025
  • Aniket Tathe 2024-2025
  • Ninad Daithankar 2024-present
  • Ganesh Nanduru 2023-2024
  • Tao Groves 2022-2023
  • VEX robotics team 2145Z (VA State Champions and won many other national competitions!) and various other middle/high school teams