I am a PhD student at the University of Virginia advised by Chirag Agarwal. Previously, I was a research assistant at the College of William and Mary advised by Antonio Mastropaolo. I am also fortunate to be mentored by Anh Totti Nguyen, Truong-Son Hy, and Thiago Serra.
I am interested in multimodal AI and AI safety: (1) evaluating and understanding LLMs/MLLMs and (2) making AI systems more robust and interpretable in high-stakes applications.
I was a Machine Learning Research Intern at CodaMetrix (Summer 2024 & 2025), where I developed LLM agents to (1) extract medical entities from EHRs and (2) evaluate and correct entities extracted by human experts and LLMs.
Selected Publications
♠ denotes equal contribution

Summary
We separate LLM biases into deep biases that survive prompt reframing and shallow ones that do not. Across 4,442 opinion prompts and four models, only about a quarter of concentrated preferences persist under reframing, and these deep biases resist both fine-tuning and prompt-based debiasing.

Summary
We introduce the first benchmark measuring pattern-completion bias in screenshot-to-code generation, showing that frontier MLLMs complete familiar UI patterns instead of reading what is actually on screen.




Selected Preprints

Summary
We show that VLMs interpret UML diagrams from pretrained priors rather than the diagram itself: simply reversing relation arrows drops open-source model accuracy by 33.48% on average.

