Today, Amazon and Virginia Tech announced the newest class of academic fellows and faculty research award recipients as part of a joint initiative. Meet the two fellows and five faculty members, and learn about their research projects. #ML

This past week was terrible. In addition, I faced some academic rejections (3 just this past week). I figured it's a good time to discuss rejections in academia. I created a 502 website describing my recent failures: yanaiela.github.io/index502.html

Interestingly, #ChatGPT will go to lengths to justify these stereotypes- even suggesting how one can correct them.

So happy to have defended my MS Thesis! Very grateful to Dr Wang Xuan Wang and Dr Ramakrishnan Naren Ramakrishnan for their immense guidance and support throughout this process! Very excited to continue my PhD with them! Thank you Dr Yanardag Pinar Yanardag for serving on my committee!

Hats off to Priya, who celebrated her master’s degree in computer science with her fiancé & their family members. Priya will return to Virginia Tech & @SanaghaniCtrVT to pursue a Ph.D. with co-advisors Naren Ramakrishnan and Xuan Wang. 🎉👏 #HokieGrad #VT25

Our paper has been accepted to ACL 2025 (Findings) 🎉 Excited to share our work: CONSENSAGENT: Towards Efficient and Effective Consensus in Multi-Agent LLM Interactions Through Sycophancy Mitigation. Huge thank you to Xuan Wang and Naren Ramakrishnan!

If LLMs tend to agree with humans (sycophancy) during conversations, what happens when they interact in a multi-agent system? How does it influence multi-agent LLM effectiveness & efficiency? Our ACL'25 paper tackles this question. Congrats to my PhD student Priya! 👏

Spring graduate Priya reports more good news: Her research paper with advisors Naren Ramakrishnan and Xuan Wang The Sanghani Center at Virginia Tech has been accepted to the annual ACL 2025 in Vienna, Austria, July 27 to August 1.

🚀 We are excited to announce an 𝗔𝗖𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗕𝗼𝗙: 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! 🌐 More detailed on website: xuanwang91.github.io/2025-ACL-BOF/ ACL 2025 #LLMAgent #SocialSimulation

Welcome to join our 𝗔𝗖𝗟 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗱𝘀-𝗼𝗳-𝗮-𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 (𝗕𝗼𝗙) 𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻! 🌐 Website: lnkd.in/eq5n3vTz ACL 2025 Priya Gaurav Srivastava

We have put together a fantastic panel featuring an amazing lineup of speakers! Paul Liang Hao Zhu 朱昊 Zhen Wang Shumiao Ouyang Xiaojing Dong We look forward to building this community and seeing you at ACL 2025!