I build language technologies that represent the world's languages, by unpacking the meaning of text and performing evaluations of model behavior.
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida, where I lead the COMPASS research lab, focused on multilingual language modeling (language technologies for the world's languages), computational semantics (analyzing and representing what text means), and model assessment (evaluating plus explaining model performance).
I am also currently a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Amherst College, and conducted research at Google, USC, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Join COMPASS! Now Recruiting Postdoctoral Fellows & Ph.D. Students
I am hiring Postdoctoral Fellows! To apply, please send (1) a cover letter including the names of three references, (2) a curriculum vitae (including full list of publications), and (3) a brief research statement describing the candidates’ interests and research (up to three pages) as PDF files to my email. I am also considering Ph.D. candidates for both Spring 2027 (priority deadline September 1, 2026) or Fall 2027 (priority deadline January 15, 2027)! If you are interested in doing a Ph.D. with me, you should apply to USF's graduate programs in Computer Science and Engineering or Data Science and AI.
News
- [July 2026] Award: I received an Outstanding Area Chair Award for exceptional service to the conference.
- [June 2026] SIGDIAL 2026: Paper accepted on LLM interpretability of discourse relations!
- [May 2026] Keynote: I gave the keynote talk at the Structured Linguistic Data (SLiDE) workshop at LREC: "When Does Linguistics Help? Downstream Utility of Linguistic Frameworks in the Age of LLMs"
- [April 2026] ACL 2026: Paper accepted on translationese classification and interpretability to the ACL Main Conference!
- [February 2026] LREC 2026: Paper accepted on text-to-UMR parsing!
- [December 2025] Award: Outstanding Paper Award at IJCNLP-AACL for my paper on generating text from Uniform Meaning Representation (one of only three papers receiving this award), with Amherst students Emma and Rei!
- [November 2025] Service: The ACM Massachusetts Gender-Inclusive Computing Celebration (MAGICC), for which I am on the Organizing Committee, happened at Amherst College, with two of my students presenting work.
- [October 2025] AACL-IJCNLP 2025: Two papers accepted, one on adversarial attack for semantic similarity and one on text generation via UMR.
- [September 2025] *SEM 2025: Paper accepted on semantic reasoning for natural language inference.
- [August 2025] EMNLP 2025: Findings paper on leveraging computational semantics for low-resource visual question answering!
- [June 2025] DMR 2025: Paper accepted on the role of PropBank sense numbers in AMR technologies
- [May 2025] ACL 2025: paper accepted on generating low-resource languages via prompting with Uniform Meaning Representation is accepted to the ACL Main Conference!
- [November 2024] EAAI 2025: A Model AI Assignment I co-authored has been accepted.
- [September 2024] EMNLP 2024: New survey paper accepted on AMR applications.
- [May 2024] Award: I am awarded the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Georgetown Computer Science Department.
- [April 2024] Award:I have been awarded Georgetown's Dr. Karen Gale Exceptional PhD Student Award.
- [February 2024] Award: I have received the AAAI/ACM SIGAI New and Future AI Educator Award and am giving a talk at EAAI.
- [January 2024] EACL 2024: I have two papers accepted to EACL, one on translationese reduction and one on evaluating interpretation data.