Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023 (expected)
• B.S. in Mathematics, Wayne State University, 2018

Experience

• Graduate Student Researcher, UCSB - NLP Group
  February 2021 - Present

• 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

Service & Outreach

• 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)

Talks

• 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)

Awards

• 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