I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Washington, advised by Ranjay Krishna. My work falls at the intersection of NLP and HCI.

Most of my research has been around inclusionary aspects of NLP systems. For example, my previous works have 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.

I also spend time thinking about and designing seamless human-computer interactions. This is mostly 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.