I am a second-year Computer Science Ph.D. student in the Language Understanding Lab at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, advised by Prof. Francis Ferraro.

My current research studies post-training optimization and system-level methods for LLMs and multimodal foundation models, with a focus on agentic reasoning and controllable adaptation. Ongoing work spans

• Reasoning reliability and verification: retrieval-grounded structured inference and agentic retrieve-verify workflows for scientific claim and feasibility assessment, hallucination mitigation in multimodal QA (FilterRAG)

• Privacy-preserving and controllable model adaptation: federated fine-tuning of LLMs with Differential Privacy (FedMentor, FedMentalCare), targeted multimodal unlearning (Multimodal Unlearning Survey)

Previously, I earned my MS in Computer Science from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where I worked on privacy-preserving Federated Learning for biometrics and Differential Privacy, contributing to projects that received NSF funding.

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