Nick Kashani Motlagh
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  1. Successfully defended my PhD dissertation, ‘Answering Under Uncertainty: Abstention, Ambiguity, and Recoverability,’ in Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University.
  2. Prepared an ARR submission on retrieval-augmented selective QA: deciding when to answer, refine, or abstain.
  3. Reported LLM reject-option training and evaluation results for DCS Corp / AFRL.
  4. Joined DCS Corp (AFRL) as Technical Analyst II working on LLM reject-option training and evaluation.
  5. Published the MVA 2025 journal extension on naturally constrained reject-option classification.
  6. Accepted WMT 2024 paper on imagery-aware multimodal MT evaluations.