Assistant Professor
at the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
My group's research aims to build agentic intelligent systems that enable general-purpose and personalized access to heterogeneous information through learning and interaction. My group is also affiliated with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval.
Some current research directions:
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Long-Horizon Reasoning in Agentic AI
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Self-Evolving Agents
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Reasoning-aware Retrieval for Augmented LLMs
Honors & Awards
- NSF CAREER Award, 2024
- Google Research Scholar Award, 2022
- Translational Seed Award, 2020, with James Allan [also here]
- Amazon Research Award , 2019, with James Allan [also here]