@inproceedings{asgarov2026nest,
  title     = {NEST: Narrative Event Structures in Time for Long Video Understanding},
  author    = {Asgarov, Ali and Narasimhan, Kaushik and Sarker, Najibul Haque and Alomari, Hani and Tang, Chia-Wei and Sivakumar, Anushka and Hakim, Zaber Ibn Abdul and Mallampati, Shaurya and Thomas, Chris},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  year      = {2026}
}

@inproceedings{hakim2026m3ec,
  title     = {M$^3$EC: A Multimodal Multidocument Benchmark for Event Extraction and Event Coreference Resolution},
  author    = {Hakim, Zaber Ibn Abdul and Sarker, Najibul Haque and Hussain, Aafiya and Alomari, Hani and Ishmam, Alvi Md and Asgarov, Ali and Tang, Chia-Wei and Thomas, Chris},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  year      = {2026}
}

@InProceedings{Alomari_2026_CVPR,
    author    = {Alomari, Hani and Asgarov, Ali and Thomas, Chris},
    title     = {Lenses: Toward Polysemous Vision-Language Understanding},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2026},
    pages     = {37810-37820}
}

@InProceedings{Sarker_2026_CVPR,
    author    = {Sarker, Najibul Haque and Ibn Abdul Hakim, Zaber and Asgarov, Ali and Tang, Chia-Wei and Ishmam, Alvi Md and Thomas, Chris},
    title     = {Immunizing Models Against Harmful Long-Horizon Fine-Tuning via Contractive Optimization Dynamics},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    month     = {June},
    year      = {2026},
    pages     = {34940-34949}
}

@inproceedings{zhou2026multirobot,
  title     = {Designing Multi-Robot Ground Video Sensemaking with Public Safety Professionals},
  author    = {Zhou, Puqi and Asgarov, Ali and Hussain, Aafiya and Park, Wonjoon and Paudyal, Amit and Shrestha, Sameep and Tang, Chia-wei and Lighthiser, Michael F. and Hieb, Michael R. and Xiao, Xuesu and Thomas, Chris and Hong, Sungsoo Ray},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  year      = {2026}
}

@inproceedings{atabuzzaman2025mcqa,
  title     = {Benchmarking and Mitigating MCQA Selection Bias of Large Vision-Language Models},
  author    = {Atabuzzaman, Md. and Asgarov, Ali and Thomas, Chris},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  year      = {2025}
}

@misc{ayyubi2026enter,
  title         = {ENTER: Event Based Interpretable Reasoning for VideoQA},
  author        = {Ayyubi, Hammad and Liu, Junzhang and Asgarov, Ali and Hakim, Zaber Ibn Abdul and Sarker, Najibul Haque and Wang, Zhecan and Tang, Chia-Wei and Alomari, Hani and Atabuzzaman, Md. and Lin, Xudong and Dyava, Naveen Reddy and Chang, Shih-Fu and Thomas, Chris},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2501.14194},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CV}
}