Hi, I’m Dan! Here is some information about me:

• I am a second-year Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute, supported by a CMU Portugal Program Scholarship.
• I am very fortunate to be co-advised by Maarten Sap and Chrysoula Zerva.
• I speak English and Russian fluently. I am also conversational in Belarusian, Mandarin Chinese, and Portuguese.
• Here is a link to my curriculum vitae.

Interests

• I am broadly interested in multilingual NLP, human-computer interaction, computational social science, and linguistics.
• I am specifically interested in observing and incorporating user perspectives of language technologies into building more speaker-centered translation and multilingual systems, with specific emphasis on minoritized dialects and low resourced languages.

Highlights

• (Jun. 2025) I presented a paper Jeffrey Basoah and I wrote about LLMs’ usage of sociolects at FAccT in Athens 🇬🇷!
• (Aug. 2024) I moved to Pittsburgh to begin my PhD!

Prior Experience

• I was previously a research assistant for Nikola Banovic and Nel Escher in the Computational HCI Lab at the University of Michigan. I was also formerly a SULI Intern at Argonne National Laboratory and a DSI Summer Lab RA at the University of Chicago Data Science Institute.
• Before that, I spent four impactful years at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Alongside my coursework, I also completed an honors project where I prototyped a Google Maps extension designed to reduce driving anxiety. I am still a very active part of the alumni community at yMac, so if you are a current Macalester student or a recent grad please don’t hesitate to reach out! Go Scots!

Contact Me

Please feel free to contact me! My email address is linked on the sidebar, but here is another link for good measure.