Incoming Research Intern @ LLNL · NLP PhD Student @ UMBC CS · Advancing Trustworthy Post-Training & Agentic LLMs/VLMs
I am a NLP PhD student at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Computer Science focusing on post-training optimization and system-level methods for LLMs and multimodal foundation models, especially agentic reasoning and controllable adaptation. Ongoing work spans
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Reasoning reliability and verification: retrieval-grounded structured inference and agentic retrieve-verify workflows for scientific claim and feasibility assessment, hallucination mitigation in multimodal QA (FilterRAG)
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Privacy-preserving and controllable model adaptation: federated fine-tuning of LLMs with Differential Privacy (FedMentor, FedMentalCare), targeted multimodal unlearning (Multimodal Unlearning Survey)

