Hi, I’m Hani Alomari 👋

Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, working with Dr. Chris Thomas on multimodal learning and vision-language representations, with an emphasis on building retrieval systems that capture diverse, non-literal meaning across images, text, video, and audio.

Research Interests

✨ Vision-Language Models 🔄 Cross-Modal Retrieval 🧠 Multimodal Reasoning

Recent News

Feb '26 Lenses accepted to CVPR 2026

Jan '26 3 papers under review at ACL Rolling Review

May '25 MaxMatch accepted to ACL 2025

Selected Publications

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Lenses: Toward Polysemous Vision-Language Understanding

Hani Alomari, Ali Asgarov, Chris Thomas

CVPR 2026 Project Page

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Maximal Matching Matters: Preventing Representation Collapse for Robust Cross-Modal Retrieval

Hani Alomari, Anushka Sivakumar, Andrew Zhang, Chris Thomas

ACL 2025 Paper

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JourneyBench: A Challenging One-Stop Vision-Language Understanding Benchmark

Zhecan Wang, Junzhang Liu, Chia-Wei Tang, Hani Alomari, et al.

NeurIPS 2024 Paper Website

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ENTER: Event-Based Interpretable Reasoning for VideoQA

Hammad Ayyubi, Junzhang Liu, Ali Asgarov, Zaber Ibn Abdul Hakim, Najibul Haque Sarker, Zhecan Wang, Chia-Wei Tang, Hani Alomari, et al.

NeurIPS 2024 MAR Workshop · Spotlight

See publications page for the complete list and links.