About me
Hello! I’m a third-year PhD student in computer science at Columbia University. I am grateful to be advised by Professor Julia Hirschberg as a member of the Spoken Language Processing Group. I’m broadly interested in multilingual and dialectal spoken language processing and computational linguistics. My research so far has applied techniques from computational paralinguistics, discourse analysis, and information theory to better understand how and why speakers code-switch between languages. The goal of my current work is to build more robust language technologies by improving the generation of human-like multilingual speech.
I am also lately interested in learning more about AI safety and technology policy, and am a research contributor to the ValuesLab, a Columbia AI Alignment technical fellow, and an occasional attendee of the NYC Tech Policy Happy Hour.
My graduate work is supported by an NSF EAGER Award (2023-2024) and an NSF Small Grant (2024-2027). I am also a Croucher Scholar as of Fall 2022.
Prior to Columbia, I earned my BSc and MEng at Cornell University, where I majored in computer science and minored in linguistics. At Cornell, I was fortunate to work with Professor Thomas Davidson and Professor Marten van Schijndel on projects evaluating the abusive behaviour and syntactic capabilities of language models.
In my free time, you can find me lifting weights, reading a mystery, enjoying live music, experimenting with new recipes, or playing a cosy co-op video game!
News
November 2024: I passed my candidacy exam!
September 2024: I presented my work on identifying the relationship between empathy and code-switching in speech at INTERSPEECH in Kos Island. I also gave an invited talk at Columbia in Topics of Moral Philosophy (PHIL GR9180): Approaches to Applied Ethics — Philosophy of AI.
June 2024: I presented my work on measuring entrainment in spontaneous code-switched speech at NAACL in Mexico City.
August 2023: I presented my work on measuring formality in speech across domains and languages at INTERSPEECH in Dublin.
April 2023: I attended the CRA-WP Grad Cohort Workshop for Women in San Francisco.
March 2023: I presented my information-theoretic work on why and how Chinese-English bilinguals code-switch in writing at the Human Sentence Processing Conference in Pittsburgh. I was also an invited speaker at the Second Workshop on Processing and Evaluating Event Representations in Rochester.
June-August 2022: I participated in the JSALT 2022 workshop on multilingual and code-switching speech recognition.