Aug '21 - present
Georgia Institute of Technology
Member of the Polo Club of Data Science where we innovate scalable, interactive, and interpretable tools that amplify human's ability to understand and interact with billion-scale data and machine learning models.
Apr '15 - May '17
International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM)
Designed experiments to analyze CRISPR-Cas9 binding effects in bacteria, using machine learning to discover patterns in the data.
Nominated for Sigma Xi Honor Society
Jan 2026
Received a nomination for Sigma Xi Honor Society
NeurIPS Top Reviewer
Oct 2025
Selected as a top reviewer (top 8% of 24k+ reviewers) for NeurIPS 2025
Spotlight Paper Award
Sep 2025
Epanechnikov DenseAM is a spotlight presentation (top 3% of 21k+ submissions) at NeurIPS 2025
Oral Poster Award
Aug 2025
Dense Associative Memory with Epanechnikov energy is an oral poster (top 5 submissions) at ICCV 2025 workshop on Memory and Vision
Oral Paper Award
Jul 2025
Concept Attention is an oral presentation (top 1% of 12k+ submissions) at ICML 2025
Best Poster Award
Jun 2025
Concept Attention is the Best Poster at the CVPRโ25 Workshop on Visual Concepts
Best Poster Award
Oct 2024
Transformer Explainer receives Best Poster at IEEE VIS 2024
Best Poster Award
Mar 2024
Energy Transformer receives 2nd place๐ฅ in GATech's annual Graduate Poster Symposium
Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention
Jul 2023
DiffusionDB receives a Best Paper, Honorable Mention Award at ACL 2023
Spotlight Paper Award
Dec 2022
HAMUX is spotlighted (top 5 submissions) at the Deep Learning and Differential Equation Workshop at NeurIPS 2022
Highlighted Reviewer
Apr 2022
ICLR 2022
Best Poster Award
Jul 2020
RXNMapper wins Best Poster award at #IOPPoster 2020
Best Demo Award
Dec 2020
LMdiff is Best Demo at NeurIPS 2020
(Runner Up) Best Demo
Dec 2019
exBERT is runner up for Best Demo at NeurIPS 2019
Dean's List
2013-2017
In the highest one third of engineering class by GPA at Duke
Raul Buelvas Award
Apr 2014
Given to one freshman at Duke University who "best exemplifies honor, optimism, and selflessness" as voted by peers and faculty
Memory as Computation: Associative Memories as a Foundation for Modern AI
Georgia Tech Thesis Proposal
Nov 2025
Emergent Memories in Dense Associative Memories
Panelist: Integrating Memory & Vision
A New Era for Associative Memories
Tutorial on Modern Methods in Associative Memory
ConceptAttention: Visualize Any Concept in Your Generated Images
Panel Moderator: Improving LLM's with Memory
Hopfield Networks 2.0: Associative Memory for the Modern Era of AI
Panelist: Future of Software Engineering in Associative Memory
Comparing Language Models with LMDiff
exBERT: Exploring Learned Embeddings in Transformer Models
System Demonstration at ACL 2020
Jul 2020
IBM Exposition Demo at ICLR 2020
Apr 2020
System Demonstration at NeurIPS 2019
Dec 2019
Unsupervised Attention Guided Atom Mapping with RXNMapper
ML Interpretability for Scientific Discovery Workshop at ICML 2020
Jul 2020
IBM Exposition Demo at ICML 2020
Jul 2020
Breaking the Wall of Black Box AI
The Inside Story
MEng Graduation elected speaker
Invited
May 2018
Using Matlab's PRT to Accelerate Algorithm Development
The Impact of Encouragement
Fall '23 - Spring '24
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Organized project teams, graded projects, and held weekly office hours for an online graduate course with 947 students enrolled.
Spring '18
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Designed homeworks, supervised projects, and occasionally teach lectures.
Spring '18
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Supervised and graded capstone projects where students designed and assembled 2-channel EEG readers
Spring '18
Graduate Teaching Assistant
As a TA, I helped setup class infrastructure (Python, jupyter) and initial curriculum for this 25 student pilot course for
Duke's Data+ Program.
Spring '17
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Prepared, supervised, and graded labs where students designed medical devices such as Ultrasound, ECGs, Baby Incubators, and functional FitBits.
Jan '15 - May '18
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
Graded homeworks, held weekly office hours, supervised labs, and private tutored students.
Jan '16 - May '17
Boeing Fellow
Wrote STEM lesson plans to engage middle and high school students in the Durham area.