About
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft in the Office of Applied Research working with Jaime Teevan, Brent Hecht, and Bahareh Sarrafzadeh. In May 2024, I graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, co-advised by Andrew McCallum and Hamed Zamani.
My research sits at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Human-Computer Interaction. I develop human-in-the-loop AI models that aid knowledge workers' professional workflows, and boost their productivity and long-term growth. Specifically, I develop interactive and personalized models to aid workflows where knowledge workers find, consume, and produce information.
My work is often user-centered and tackles realistic, yet under-supported challenges in knowledge work. In the past, I have worked on:
- Interactive and personalized ranking models that make reviewer-paper assignments in peer review.
- Interactive exploration models and datasets to help scientists in brainstorming with the literature.
- LLMs personalized with calibrated retrieval models for writing assistance.
- Low resource information extraction models and datasets to help materials scientists to analyze materials science papers in order to automate parts of materials synthesis.
I am drawn to methods which enable models to communicate and interact with humans:
- Explainable models which communicate model internals with users e.g. LACE, CtrlCE
- Calibrated models which communicate uncertainty in predictions or intermediate states e.g. Pearl, CtrlCE
- Optimization methods to incorporate inference time feedback into predictions e.g. LACE, EdTM
- Data-centric methods like weak supervision and synthetic data that enables training from imperfect human annotations e.g. Aspire, MINT
Finally, datasets enable model development, so I have developed important datasets for under-explored problems: LAMP, CSFCube, MSPT
🚨 I am on the academic job market for Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 🚨
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News
- Nov 2024: I will be at the EMNLP conference in Miami, drop me an email if you'd like to chat!
- Sep 2024: I was at the inaugural COLM conference in Philadelphia
- Jun 2024: I started a postdoc at the Office of Applied Research at Microsoft
- May 2024: I defended my Ph.D. thesis on "Controllable Personalization for Information Access"!
- Nov 2023: I spent a delightful summer in Seattle interning at Microsoft Research with Tara Safavi, Mengting Wan and Jennifer Neville!
- Jun 2021: I had a fantastic time interning at the AI2 Semantic Scholar team over the summer with Tom Hope and Arman Cohan!