Bio

My research interests mainly concern Natural Language Processing (NLP), which is an interdisciplinary subfield of Artificial Intelligence at the intersection of statistical machine learning and theoretical linguistics. I am particularly interested in questions involving how to do more with less (low resource scenarios, synthetic data) and how to know we’re doing well (evaluation and dataset curation). I completed my PhD at Brandeis University advised by Professor Constantine Lignos. My thesis involved NLP tasks like summarization and named entity recognition in low resource settings such as domain specific scenarios like e-commerce or languages with fewer resources.

Prior to doctoral studies at Brandeis, I worked as a research programmer at Information Sciences Institute (ISI). Before working at ISI, I completed the Master of Science in Computational Lingusitics at Brandeis in 2018 with a master’s thesis focusing on Bridging Anaphora. I also was formerly an English as a foreign language instructor at Kent State University where I taught courses on English grammar, writing, and speaking and listening. Currently I am an Applied Researcher at eBay on the search science team working in user understanding and personalization.