currently
I am a researcher in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing working on AI/ML for social good and public policy issues with Rayid Ghani at CMU.
previously
I worked on digital assistants for the medical domain as a Machine Learning Engineer at 3M, and on writing assistance tools for Word with Chris Quirk as an Applied Scientist at Microsoft. My work in industry has included collecting data to fine-tune large transformer models, applying knowledge distillation to produce fast and accurate models for production, and developing compact task-specific representations to improve model efficiency.
I graduated in 2018 with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Julia Hockenmaier. My PhD research focused on how to tackle semantic tasks like textual entailment using image caption denotations. I also interned with Joel Tetreault at Grammarly in 2017 and with the Amazon A9 Product Search group in 2016.