Talks & Media

Invited Talks & Guest Lectures

• Dec 2025: Invited Talk, NICE AI Talk, Virtual
• Sep 2025: Invited Talk, CCSB Biweekly Seminar Series, Prairie View A&M University, Virtual
• Aug 2025: Guest Lecture, CSE 472: Social Media Mining, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
• Aug 2025: Invited Talk, Yochan Lab, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Media Coverage

Coverage of our work on chain-of-thought reasoning of LLMs (ACL 2026):

• Aug 2025: The New Yorker — What if A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?
• Aug 2025: Ars Technica — LLMs’ “Simulated Reasoning” Abilities Are a “Brittle Mirage,” Researchers Find
• Aug 2025: VentureBeat — LLMs Generate ‘Fluent Nonsense’ When Reasoning Outside Their Training Zone
• Aug 2025: SF Examiner — New Study Calls AI Reasoning a ‘Brittle Mirage’
• Aug 2025: The Decoder — Yet Another Study Doubts That LLM Reasoning Shows True Logic over Pattern Imitation