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Welcome! I am a first-year PhD student studying artificial intelligence at the University of Southern California, with experience from Meta and Stanford University. Currently, I work as a research scientist at the Information Sciences Institute with Prof. Jonathan May. The topics I plan to explore during my PhD include multilinguality, Creole NLP, NLP for social good, and model understanding.
Prior to USC, I worked at Meta as a machine learning engineer. In this role, I led, collaborated, and executed on ML ranking projects related to Groups, and briefly worked on using ML for compiler optimization. In my third year with the company, I decided to pursue my passion for research by returning to academia.
Before my time in industry, I completed my undergraduate and master’s degrees at Stanford. While there, I conducted research first with the Stanford Network Analysis Project under Prof. Jure Leskovec and Dr. Rok Sosic, then with the Stanford Natural Language Processing Group supervised by Prof. Christopher Manning and mentored by Prof. John Hewitt (who was then a PhD student).
In addition to my technical interests, a major life goal of mine is to do work to improve the lives of disadvantaged individuals globally. My hobbies include fitness, learning about philosophy, and writing poetry.
→ JamPatoisNLI (EMNLP Findings | 2022)
JamPatoisNLI: A Jamaican Patois Natural Language Inference Dataset
→ CreoleVal (TACL | 2024)
CreoleVal: Multilingual Multitask Benchmarks for Creoles
→ Vox: Why AI Doesn’t Speak Every Language
In this Vox video on NLP and low resource languages, I discuss the creation of JamPatoisNLI.
In this Vox video on NLP and low resource languages, I discuss the creation of JamPatoisNLI.
→ PiSocieties Mentorship Program
In summer 2020, I worked with my younger sister (who currently studies economics and psychology at Columbia) to formed a small non-profit short-term mentorship program aimed at connecting high-school girls back home in Jamaica with women in their disciplines of interest by hosting and organizing sessions on Zoom. We ran the project for two summers!
→ Women of Silicon Valley: Caribbean Techies
4 Questions with Ruth-Ann Hazel Armstrong
→ Siebel Scholar 2022
Siebel Scholars Foundation Announces Class of 2022
→ Google Generation Scholar 2021
Google Scholarship recipients - Build your future with Google
→ Motorola Solutions Foundation Engineering Scholar 2021