News
- 07.31.25: I am co-organizing the fourth NLP for Positive Impact Workshop, co-located at ACL 2025!
- 11.12.24: Our work, Studying and Mitigating Biases in Sign Language Understanding Models, was published at EMNLP 2024
- 06.16.24: Our work, Generating Signed Language Instructions in Large-Scale Dialogue Systems, was published at NAACL 2024
- 05.20.24: Our work, Combining Discourse Coherence with Large Language Models for More Inclusive, Equitable, and Robust Task-Oriented Dialogue, was published at LREC-COLING 2024
- 02.08.24: I gave a talk at Bilkent University called Responsible Artificial Intelligence and Marginalized Communities
About
Welcome! I am a fifth year PhD candidate in Computer Science at Northeastern University, conducting research with Malihe Alikhani. I am passionate about using NLP tools for good, and my research focuses on developing responsible and fair AI tools using insights from linguistics and social sciences. I have published at venues including ACL, NAACL, EACL, SIGDIAL, COLING, and COGSCI, and won a best paper award for our work at UAI 2022. Last year, I was part of a university team that placed third in the Amazon Alexa Prize Taskbot Competition!
In my free time, I enjoy bouldering, playing the piano, singing (catch our concerts at Cambridge Chamber Singers!), working out, and spending time outdoors!
Research Agenda
I believe that NLP is fundamentally interdisciplinary, and my research reflects this. I develop computational frameworks for understanding linguistic and social phenomena, and apply these frameworks to develop fair and responsible AI systems. Therefore, most of my current or past projects fall into one or more of the following categories: Discourse and Pragmatics, Computational Social Science, and Responsible and Accessible AI. Here are some examples of current and past projects:
