Published multiple papers; involved in the research of the Zephyr model; featured in the NYT article cover on RLHF data collection and finetuning.
Research Experience
Led the team at Hugging Face for benchmarking data quality and setting key criteria. Worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Salesforce Research, leading a small team to build robust natural language generation models.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin, advised by Prof. Ray Mooney; MS in CS with a thesis advised by Jason Baldridge.
Background
Research interests include natural language processing, model alignment, and explainability. Formerly a Research Lead at Hugging Face, focusing on democratizing the secret sauce of alignment that makes ChatGPT different from GPT-3.
Miscellany
Enjoys teaching and has taught courses on interpreting ML models; currently Founder and CEO of a stealth startup.