News & Updates

• [2026/08] 🗣️ Giving a talk at TU Delft on “Expecting the Unexpected: Reasoning and Localizing Surprise using Video-LLMs” on Sep 4, 2026. Attending ECCV 2026.
• [2026/06] 🎉 My paper Spotlight: Identifying and Localizing Video Generation Errors Using VLMs is accepted at ECCV 2026!
• [2026/06] 🔥 Organizing the CogVL Workshop at CVPR 2026. Our keynote speakers include Trevor Darrell, Katerina Fragkiadaki, Judy Fan and Alane Suhr.
• [2026/04] ✈️ Attending ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to present SPIKE-RL.
• [2025/11] 🤖 Joining Ideogram as a ML Intern, working on T2I models at scale.
• [2025/11] Spotlight: Identifying and Localizing Video Generation Errors Using VLMs is now available on ArXiv!
• [2025/09] Pre-print of our work, SPIKE-RL: Video-LLMs meet Bayesian Surprise, is now available on ArXiv!
• [2025/09] 🎉 Our position paper, World Models must live in Parallel Worlds, accepted at NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Bridging Language, Agent, and World Models for Reasoning.
• [2025/08] 🎉 Our paper Mitigate One, Skew Another? Tackling Intersectional Biases in Text-to-Image Models is accepted at EMNLP 2025!
• [2025/08] Presented Black Swan at Vector Institute’s Endless Summer School
• [2025/07] Attending & presenting our work on bias detection and video reasoning in text-to-image models at Vision & Learning Workshop @ ICML 2025!
• [2025/06] ⭐ Awarded outstanding reviewer @ CVPR 2025. Attending CVPR in Nashville.
• [2025/05] Latest pre-print: Mitigate One, Skew Another? Tackling Intersectional Biases in Text-to-Image Models
• [2025/04] 🔥 Among 30 researchers from Canada, including Yoshua Bengio, to attend the Safety-Guaranteed LLMs workshop at Simons Institute, UC Berekely!
• [2025/02] 🎉 Our paper Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events is accepted at CVPR 2025!
• [2025/01] 🎧 Our work on Biases in Image Generation AI is featured on the Knowledge at Wharton podcast!
• [2024/12] Pre-print of our work, Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events, is now available!
• [2024/10] 📚 Joining Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC) as a Visiting Researcher, working with Dr. Matthew Turk
• [2024/10] 🎉 From Local Concepts to Universals: Evaluating the Multicultural Understanding of VL Models is accepted at EMNLP 2024!
• [2024/07] 🎉 Our paper TIBET: Identifying and Evaluating Biases in T2I models is accepted at ECCV 2024!
• [2024/06] Preprint of our work From Local Concepts to Universals: Evaluating the Multicultural Understanding of VL Models is now available on ArXiv!
• [2024/06] Attending CVPR 2024 in Seattle
• [2024/04] ✅ Masters degree. My thesis is available here
• [2024/03] ⭐ Recieved the highly competitive UBC Four-Year Fellowship for my PhD
• [2024/02] I will be continuing as a PhD student at UBC!
• [2023/04] I will be attending CVPR 2023
• [2023/01] 🎉 Attending WACV 2023 to present our work, VLC-BERT
• [2022/09] 🤖 Joining Borealis AI as a Research Intern
• [2021/08] Starting my Masters at UBC!