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Awards

• Outstanding New Assistant Professor Award, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2024
• NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2023
• Outstanding Area Chair Award from The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'2023)
• Outstanding Paper Award from The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'2023)
• Best Paper Award Honorable Mention from The 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR'2023)
• Rising Star Award, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, 2023
• Third Place (Scientific Innovation Winner), Alexa Prize SocialBot Grand Challenge 5, 2023
• Amazon Research Award, Amazon, 2021
• AI2 Fellowship, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, 2019

Current Grants

• NSF CAREER Project, National Science Foundation (IIS, #2238940), 2023-Present
• DARPA Foundation Models for Scientific Discovery (FoundSci), 2024-Present
• IARPA Rapid Explanation, Analysis and Sourcing Online (REASON), 2024-Present
• NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC, #2330940), 2024-Present
• Washington Post: Enhancing Reader Experience with LLMs, 2024-Present
• NSF SBIR Award, 2024-Present
• DARPA Environment-driven Conceptual Learning (ECOLE), 2023-Present
• Amazon-Virginia Tech Initiative Research Award on Open-domain Conversational AI, 2023-Present
• Intuit Research Award, 2022-Present
• Commonwealth Cyber Initiative Research Award, 2023-Present

Past Grants

• Amazon: Alexa Prize SocialBot Challenge, 2022-2023
• DARPA Knowledge Management at Scale and Speed (KMASS), 2022-2023
• Amazon: Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge 2022-2023
• Meta AI Research Award, 2022-2023
• Google Research Award, 2022-2023
• US Air Force Research Lab, STTR, 2021