Publications: 'Data Augmentation by Concatenation for Low-Resource Translation: A Mystery and a Solution' accepted to IWSLT; 'Joint Universal Syntactic and Semantic Parsing' accepted in TACL; 'Gradual Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Domain Adaptation' accepted at Adapt-NLP.
Research Experience
Currently a Research Scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, focusing on Multilingual Natural Language Processing. Previously, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Language and Speech Processing, working with Benjamin Van Durme on Crosslingual Semantics, Information Extraction, and Information Retrieval. Also, worked as a Research Associate at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) with Stephan Vogel on Machine Translation.
Education
PhD: University of Notre Dame, advised by David Chiang; Master's: Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Language Technologies Institute, advised by Daniel Neill; Bachelor's: Princeton University School of Engineering, majoring in Computer Science, advised by David Blei.
Background
Research interests include Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning & AI, Computational Linguistics, and Cross-Lingual processing. Focuses on improving core NLP methods and algorithms, particularly in multilingual applications and low-resource settings.
Miscellany
Personal interests include mentoring students and welcoming current JHU undergraduates or master's students to apply for collaboration opportunities.