I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Washington, advised by Sewoong Oh.

My previous works explored how to make language systems more usable for people.

A significant part of my research has revolved around studying the inclusivity of NLP systems. For example, we found that NLP systems have positionalities that make them not work well for the broader population, eventually marginalizing communities such as those who speak low resource languages. In our recent studies, we found that inclusion not only benefits the society, but also has the potential to improve performance of ML systems, ultimately contributing to AI progress.

The other major thread I've been interested in is designing seamless human-computer interactions. This has previously manifested in the form of user interfaces, some of which are now part of Firefox, Bugzilla, & other open-source projects, published as research papers, or simply ended up as fun side projects. I believe we still have a long way to go in figuring out naturalistic interactions. Some of my thoughts on this topic is covered in a recent tutorial we gave at EMNLP 2023.