Best Theme Paper at ACL 2024: OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models; Best Resource Paper at ACL 2024: Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research; Named one of the most powerful people in artificial intelligence by Business Insider in 2024; Published multiple papers, including Stereotype or Personalization? User Identity Biases Chatbot Recommendations.
Research Experience
Intern and/or research scientist at Amazon, IBM, Meta, and Google.
Education
Ph.D. from UMass Amherst, Information Extraction and Synthesis Laboratory, Advisor: Andrew McCallum; B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maine, minor in math, Advisor: David Hiebeler.
Background
Research Interests: Intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning; Professional Field: Bridging the gap between state-of-the-art NLP methods and a wide variety of users who stand to benefit from that technology, but for whom that technology does not yet work in practice; Bio: Raj Reddy Assistant Professor in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, also holds a courtesy faculty appointment in CMU's Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Miscellany
Hobbies: Cooking, fermenting (kombucha, kimchi, yogurt, sourdough), DIY renovating, hiking, and camping; Has two dogs: Nala and Pepper; Backpacked the first 250 miles of the Colorado Trail; Enjoys summiting the high points of U.S. states; Co-author of Plant Jones, a semi-intelligent plant.