About
I study multimodal alignment with common sense — how models connect what they see and read to the way the world actually works.
I am currently a PhD student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, working under the supervision of Professor Emile van Krieken, Professor Filip Ilievski and Professor Shujian Yu. My research focuses on Multimodal Alignment with Common Sense.
Previously, I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer, developing recommendation systems for shopping malls and managed the Customer Data Platform. Before that, I earned my Master’s in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, conducting research on detecting disinformation under the guidance of Professor Chris Thomas. My work involved developing language models using RLHF and PPO, and integrating cross-modal information into knowledge graphs for fine-grained detection of real and fake information.
News
- Our work on multimodal meme QA was accepted to EMNLP 2026.
- I joined the research teams of Prof. Emile, Prof. Filip, and Prof. Shujian as a PhD student.
- Our work on multimodal fine-grained inconsistency detection was accepted to EMNLP 2024.
- Our work on multidocument, multimodal evidence summarization was accepted to ACL 2024.
- I defended my MS thesis.
- Our work on fine-grained multidocument multimodal inconsistency checking was featured in Columbia Engineering Magazine (“When Trust Is a Factor”)