Publications: Includes multiple high-impact conference papers such as 'mrCAD: Multimodal Refinement of Computer-aided Designs' (Findings of EMNLP 2025), 'Inducing Programmatic Skills for Agentic Tasks' (COLM 2025). Involved in projects like 'Symbolic Planning and Code Generation for Grounded Dialogue' (EMNLP 2023), 'Grounding Language Models to Images for Multimodal Inputs and Outputs' (ICML 2023).
Research Experience
Currently an assistant professor at the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Previously a postdoc at FAIR Seattle and the University of Washington.
Education
Ph.D.: UC Berkeley NLP Group and Berkeley AI Research Lab; M.Phil.: Cambridge Computer Laboratory; B.S.: University of Arizona
Background
Research Interests: Natural language processing, particularly enabling people to use language to interact with computers to carry out useful tasks in the world. Focus on pragmatics, viewing language as an action that affects communicative partners in context.