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Papers, talks, internships, and other updates from Manan Suri.
| Sep 10, 2026 | Our paper “CyberForge: Verified Vulnerability Injection at Repository Level for Cybersecurity Agent Training” is on arXiv with a project page, and was featured by UMD Computer Science in “When AI Goes on Defense”. |
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| Jun 3, 2026 | Our paper “Frames2LoRA: Parametric Video Internalization for Vision-Language Models” is on arXiv, with a project page, code, and checkpoints. It was also featured by UMD Computer Science in “Teaching AI to See Faster”. |
| Jun 1, 2026 | Started as a research intern at Meta Superintelligence Labs in Menlo Park, working on parametric memory for agents. |
| May 20, 2026 | Earned my MS in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, continuing toward the PhD. |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Received the Outstanding Achievement award for contributions to the UMD CS Graduate Program (2025–2026). |
| Apr 10, 2026 | Two papers accepted at ACL 2026 (Findings): “CodeScout: Contextual Problem Statement Enhancement for Software Agents” and “Structured Uncertainty Guided Clarification for LLM Agents”. |
| Jan 25, 2026 | Started as a research fellow at NIST, working on robust software engineering agents. |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Gave an invited talk, “From Language Models to Agents: Foundations, Frameworks, and Future Challenges”, at Illinois Institute of Technology. |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Presented our paper “Follow the Flow: Fine-grained Flowchart Attribution with Neurosymbolic Agents” at EMNLP 2025 in Suzhou. |
| Aug 28, 2025 | Gave an invited talk, “Fine-grained Visual Attribution”, at Adobe headquarters in San Jose. |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Our paper “Follow the Flow: Fine-grained Flowchart Attribution with Neurosymbolic Agents” was accepted at EMNLP 2025 (main conference). |
| May 29, 2025 | Joined Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern on the agentic developer tools team (Amazon Q), working on software engineering agents. |
| May 20, 2025 | Our workshop RARA: Grounding Documents with Reasoning, Agents, Retrieval, and Attribution, which I am co-organizing, was accepted at ICDM 2025. |
| May 15, 2025 | Our paper “ChartLens: Fine-grained Visual Attribution in Charts” was accepted at ACL 2025 (main conference). |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Our paper “VisDoM: Multi-Document QA with Visually Rich Elements Using Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation” was accepted at NAACL 2025 (main conference). |
| Nov 20, 2024 | Presented our paper “DocEdit-v2: Document Structure Editing Via Multimodal LLM Grounding” at EMNLP 2024 in Miami, where I also served as a Volunteer Coordinator. |
| Nov 1, 2024 | Served as a reviewer for ACL Rolling Review (October 2024 cycle) and ICASSP 2025. |
| Sep 20, 2024 | Our paper “DocEdit-v2: Document Structure Editing Via Multimodal LLM Grounding” was accepted at EMNLP 2024 (main conference). |
| Aug 26, 2024 | Started my MS in Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. |
| Jun 7, 2024 | Graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from Netaji Subhas University of Technology, with First Division with Distinction. |
| Apr 15, 2024 | Admitted to the MS in Computer Science program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Starting in fall 2024. |
| Mar 30, 2024 | Our paper “Doc2Command: Furthering Language Guided Document Editing” was accepted at the ICLR 2024 Tiny Papers track. |
| Dec 3, 2023 | Presented our paper “CoSyn: Detecting Implicit Hate Speech in Online Conversations Using a Context Synergized Hyperbolic Network” at EMNLP 2023 in Singapore. |
| Aug 24, 2023 | Presented “Detecting Green Messaging and an Exploration into Greenwashing” at DataFest 2023 at The Shard, London. |
| Aug 10, 2023 | Our paper “CoSyn: Detecting Implicit Hate Speech in Online Conversations Using a Context Synergized Hyperbolic Network” was accepted at EMNLP 2023 (main conference). |
| Jun 5, 2023 | Started the Data Science for Social Good Fellowship at the University of Warwick. |
| May 2, 2023 | Our paper “ACLM: A Selective-Denoising based Generative Data Augmentation Approach for Low-Resource Complex NER” was accepted at ACL 2023 (main conference). |