Scholar
Tessa Masis
Google Scholar ID: fFtzgb4AAAAJ
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Citations & Impact
Citations
21
H-index
3
i10-index
1
Publications
8
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers including 'Coordinates from Context: Using LLMs to Ground Complex Location References,' 'Global Racial Solidarity? (K-)Popularization, Changes, and Erasure in Transnational Movements of #StopAsianHate,' and more. Participated in various workshops such as NLP+CSS Workshop at NAACL, 2024, TADA, 2023, SCiL, 2023, NWAV50, 2022, Field Matters Workshop at COLING, 2022, BlackboxNLP Workshop at EMNLP, 2021, Bridging AI and Cognitive Science (BAICS) Workshop at ICLR, 2020, and Scholarship for Undergraduate Literary Studies conference, 2020.
Research Experience
- Member of the SLANGLab and the larger UMass NLP group; Teaching Assistant for COMPSCI 220 Programming Methodology in Spring 2022; Developed culturally sustaining assessment tools (CSAT) for computational thinking in early elementary students in collaboration with PIs of related NSF-funded research project in Fall 2020; Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for COMPSCI 220 Programming Methodology in Fall 2019.
Education
- Pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at UMass Amherst, advised by Brendan O'Connor, and supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Background
- PhD candidate in Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with research interests in natural language processing and computational social science, particularly using computational methods to investigate linguistic or social phenomena, especially those relevant to marginalized groups.
Miscellany
- Living with a chronic pain condition that significantly impacts life and ability to work; shared resources on disability and why health/productivity is morally neutral.
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