Fwd: ALTA Monthly NLP Seminar Series: Session 3 (July 2)

[ALTA President (Jey Han Lau)]

Dear ALTA members,

We'll be having our next monthly ALTA seminar tomorrow (Thursday 2 July) at 9am. Please join us! See email from Usman (seminar organiser) below:

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From: Usman Naseem <usman....@mq.edu.au>
Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Subject: ALTA Monthly NLP Seminar Series: Session 3 (July 2)
To: Usman Naseem <usman....@mq.edu.au>

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to continue the ALTA (Australasian Language Technology Association) monthly online seminar series. This series features senior PhD students and postdocs from Australia and overseas, showcasing a snapshot of current research in NLP, LLMs, and language technologies.

When: Tomorrow (Thursday), 9:00 AM AEST
Where: Online via Zoom (https://macquarie.zoom.us/j/81586095417?pwd=kyJfGRzYuXoaXobWm9ND9JR6JtkI22.1)

Speakers:

• Kaiser Sun — PhD student, Johns Hopkins University – "Reading, Not Thinking: Understanding and Bridging the Modality Gap When Text Becomes Pixels in Multimodal LLMs"
• Devin Yuncheng Hua — Postdoc, UNSW "SOCIA-EVO: Automated Simulator Construction via Dual-Anchored Bi-Level Optimization"
  
  

More details are available in the poster below (attached). It would be great if you could share this with your students and teams.

PS: If you are attending ACL then let's catchup.

Regards

Usman Naseem

School of Computing | Macquarie University

Office: Rm 320, 4 Research Park Drive

Email: usman.naseem@mq.edu.au | Phone: (+61) 02 9850 4543

MQ profile: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/usman-naseem

Homepage: http://usmaann.github.io/