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Recent updates, talks, papers, and announcements.

• Nov 20, 2026 I will give a talk on misinformation detection at Georgetown University, Department of Mathematics, on November 20, 2026.
• Aug 8, 2026 Our preprint The Rank-Collapse Principle for Quadratic Optimization with Mojtaba Soltanalian is now on arXiv.
• Jul 24, 2026 Our paper A Dynamically Nonmonotone Trust Region Algorithm Based on Scalar Estimations of the Hessian with Application to Binary Classification with Outliers is now published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics.
• Jul 22, 2026 We submitted Weaver: A Hybrid Quantum-Classical Optimization Method for Binary Compressive Sensing under Matrix Uncertainty to AAAI 2027.
• Jun 28, 2026 We submitted An Ensemble Learning Approach Based on Random Sparse Quadratic Twin Parametric-Margin SVMs to Knowledge-Based Systems (SSRN preprint available).
• Jun 22, 2026 I will serve as a program committee member for the MMAI (Multimodal AI) workshop at IEEE Big Data 2026.
• Jun 3, 2026 Our paper E-CaTCH: Event-Centric Cross-Modal Attention with Temporal Consistency and Class-Imbalance Handling for Misinformation Detection is now published online in IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
• May 25, 2026 We submitted BLADE: Bilevel Low-Rank Augmented-Lagrangian Erasure for LLM Unlearning to EMNLP 2026 (via ACL Rolling Review, May 2026).
• May 11, 2026 I presented a poster on E-CaTCH at the AU Research Conference, American University.
• Dec 15, 2025 I received a CAS Faculty Grant for Scholarship and Creative Inquiry ($2,500) for Fair Collaborative Learning via Synthetic Payloads in Imbalanced Settings.
• Oct 13, 2025 I gave a talk, Exploring Sparsity: Modeling and Algorithmic Insights in Machine Learning and Finance, at Semnan University.