About Me

I'm an incoming assistant professor at TTIC, and a current faculty fellow at NYU CDS. Previously, I received my PhD from Berkeley EECS, where I was part of the Berkeley NLP Group and advised by Dan Klein. Before that, I was an undergrad at Brown University, where I majored in math and linguistics and was advised by Ellie Pavlick.

Research

My primary research area is natural language processing, but these days I am broadly interested in improving AI capabilities.

Recently, I've been thinking about:

• Building language models that can learn efficiently from limited data
• Training models that are optimized to collaborate with humans
• Explaining complex model behavior in a human-interpretable way
• Fundamental limits of the current language modeling paradigm

I'm also interested in computational cognitive science, linguistics, reinforcement learning, human-computer interaction, and AI safety. For a better sense of my planned future research, check out my blog. For a better sense of my current or past research, check out my papers.