Received multiple grants from World Health Consortium, Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, etc.; ACM CHI Best Paper Honorable Mention (2020).
Research Experience
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, leading the Society + AI & Language (SAIL) lab; Former: Postdoctoral researcher at Stanford NLP Group; Industry background: Meta and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Education
PhD: University of California, Irvine (2015-2020); Postdoc: Department of Computer Science, Stanford University (2020-2021), Advisor: Dan Jurafsky; BA: Columbia University, Political Science.
Background
Research Interests: Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, and Statistics; Field: Computer Science; Summary: Studies communication breakdowns, focusing on how people communicate and how technology can enhance or disrupt our communication.
Miscellany
Personal Interest: Fascinated by the power of words, especially how language shapes our thoughts, interactions, and relationships.