- April 2026New graduate course: INF 385T now includes Language Models and Agentic Workflows.
- Spring 2026Capstone showcase: five supervised student projects will be featured at the UT iSchool capstone showcase.
- May 2026New consulting role: serving as Senior Agentic RAG Consultant at Texas Sports Academy — a forward-looking school in Austin that reimagines education for student-athletes by blending rigorous academics with elite athletic development and individualized, technology-augmented learning. The engagement focuses on bringing retrieval-augmented and agentic AI workflows into their learning platform so coaches, tutors, and students get grounded, context-aware AI support that respects the school's human-first, mastery-based mission.
- March 2026Research release: two new brain-signal-to-text papers are live on arXiv and under review — the brain signal to text generation paper and SYNAPSE: Neuro-Symbolic Visual Thought-to-Text Decoding via Topological Semantic Denoising.
- February 2026BCI and generative AI updates: our AAAI 2025 tutorial and survey paper on generative AI for BCIs are live at Tutorial Details and Survey Paper, and our trimodal brain-to-text LLM paper was accepted to NAACL 2025 Findings at Paper.
- 2026Voila Voice: raised $200K pre-seed and secured compute credits from Nvidia, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft; more here.
- March 2025ACL 2025 papers: one paper advances pragmatic understanding in LLMs and another, ETF, tackles hallucination detection in code summaries on arXiv.
- February 2024AAAI 2024: SentinelLMs on encrypted input adaptation and private LLM fine-tuning was presented at the main conference in Vancouver, with details at this link.