Education

Experience

Research Science Intern, Microsoft Cognitive Services Research
June 2023 - September 2023
Research Science Intern, Meta AI
June 2022 - September 2022
Team Lead, Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge, UCSB
June 2021 - June 2022
Lead UCSB’s team gauchobot in developing an agent that assists real customers to complete cooking and do-it-yourself projects that require multiple steps and complex decision making. Placed in top-5 out of 125 teams
Research Associate, Theta Lake
June 2019 - September 2020
Built classifiers for automated risk detection in regulated industries

Organizer
- NeurIPS 2022, Transfer Learning for NLP (TL4NLP): Insights and Advances on Positive and Negative Transfer\
- ACL 2023, NLP for Conversational AI (ConvAI)
- ACL 2023, Diversity and Inclusion Social: Mindfulness meditation in a time of NLP hyperactivity
Program Committee, 2022: (NAACL, EMNLP), 2023: (AAAI, ACL, EMNLP), 2024: (AAAI)

Mindfulness Meditation in a Time of NLP Hyperactivity [slides]
- July 2023, ACL, Social Event
Improving Few-Shot Generalization by Exploring and Exploiting Auxiliary Data
- May 2023, Microsoft Cognitive Sciences Research
Lecture on Conversational AI in NLP
- April 2023, UCSB 190I Natural Language Processing Course
Improving Data Efficiency for Natural Language Processing [slides]
- February 2023, PhD Proposal
FETA: A Benchmark for Few-Sample Task Transfer in Open Domain Dialogue [Recording]
- December 2022, EMNLP, Main Conference
An Exploration of Methods for Zero-shot Transfer in Small Language Models
- December 2022, NeurIPS, Efficient Natural and Speech Language Processing Workshop
Dialogue Relation Extraction with Explanations [Recording]
- May 2022, ACL, NLP4ConvAI workshop
Machine Learning Introduction [Recording]
- January 2022, UCSB SEEDS
Utilizing Extrinsic Information in NLP Tasks [slides]
- June 2021, Major Area Exam (Qualifying Exam)

2023 NeurIPS Scholar Award
2018 IGERT Fellow. University of California, Santa Barbara
2018 Academic Excellence Fellowship. University of California, Santa Barbara
2018 Chia Keui Tsao Award for outstanding achievement in the undergraduate mathematics program. Wayne State Universty