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Aug 15, 2026 🎉 Our paper “UrbanLLMind: Scalable LLM-Powered Urban Mobility Simulation with Open-Weight Models” has been accepted to the Third Conference on Language Modeling (COLM 2026)!
Jul 20, 2026 📄 Our journal paper “Behaviorally Realistic Urban Mobility Synthesis via Fine-Tuned Large Language Models” has been published in ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS)!
May 10, 2025 🏆 Honored to receive both the Outstanding PhD Student Award and the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award (2025) from the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University!
Nov 1, 2024 🏆 Our paper “Urban Mobility Assessment Using LLMs” won the Best Paper Award at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2024 in Atlanta, GA!
Oct 25, 2024 🏆 Our paper “From Text to Maps: LLM-Driven Extraction and Geotagging of Epidemiological Data” won the Outstanding Paper Award at NLP4PI @ EMNLP 2024!