I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Middlebury College. At Middlebury, I teach core courses for the CS major as well as Natural Language Processing and Software Development.
My research interests are at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Social Science. My recent work has focused on studying bias and group-level performance disparities in language models and using modern language technology for the analysis of large corpora. My Ph.D. thesis focused on modeling change in language over time for individuals with depression, primarily using social media data. I have also done work on perspectivism in NLP, bias in language, and Clinical NLP.
I completed my Ph.D. in 2023 at the University of Michigan, and earned my B.A. in computer science from Carleton College in 2016. I have also spent time in industry, including a summer as an intern IBM Research working on Clinical NLP and two years as a full-time software engineer at Pinterest working on database systems.
Recent News
September 2026: I am teaching Data Structures (CSCI 0201) and the Senior Seminar (CSCI 701) in Fall 2026
July 2026: Traveling up Route 7 to ic2s2 in Burlington, VT 🍁. Middlebury graduate Elise Scott will be presenting our work on “Global Bias in Question Answering for Large Language Models” during the virtual day.
July 2026: I am chairing a virtual session at ACL on Social NLP
July 2026: “Dark & Stormy: Modeling Humor in the Worst Sentences Ever Written” was published at ACL 2026
November 2025: I am a panelist at Women in Data Science event on Health and Society at Middlebury
October 2025: “Dark & Stormy: Modeling Humor in the Worst Sentences Ever Written” has been posted on arXiv
September 2025: I am giving a talk “From Words to Numbers and Back Again: A Gentle Introduction to Language Model Internals” at the Middlebury’s Clifford Symposium on AI
September 2025: I am teaching Data Structures (CSCI 0201) in Fall 2025
July 2025: Traveling to ACL in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹. I’m presenting at the GeBNLP workshop and organizing the NLP4PI workshop!
July 2025: “Eeyore: Realistic Depression Simulation via Supervised and Preference Optimization” was published in the Findings of ACL 2025
June 2025: I am teaching a one-week course on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science at the North American Summer School for Logic, Language and Information in Seattle, WA ⛰️
April 2025: Traveling to NAACL in Albuquerque, NM 🏜️
April 2025: “Sports and Women’s Sports: Gender Bias in Text Generation with Olympic Data” was published at NAACL 2025
April 2025: “Representing and Clustering Errors in Offensive Language Detection” was published at the Student Research Workshop at NAACL 2025
February 2025: I’ll give a talk on “Studying Human Behavior with Language” as part of the seminar series in Middlbury’s Economics department
February 2025: I am teaching Introduction to Computing (CSCI 0145) and Natural Language Processing (CSCI 0457) in Spring 2025
October 2024: Traveling to Monterey, California to attend the CNS Workshop Applications of AI Tools for WMD Nonproliferation in Monterey, CA, where I’ll give a talk on “Discovery from Large Text Datasets”
October 2024: “How developments in natural language processing help us in understanding human behaviour” has been published in Nature Human Behavior
September 2024: I am teaching Software Development (CSCI 0312) in Fall 2024
August 2024: Traveling to ACL in Bangkok, Thailand 🇹🇭, as an organizer of the Teaching NLP workshop.
May 2024: “Has It All Been Solved? Open NLP Research Questions Not Solved by Large Language Models” was published at LREC-COLING 2024
May 2024: After a year as a faculty member, I finally walked in my PhD commencement ceremony in Ann Arbor 🎓! My advisor Rada Mihalcea shared a photo.
April 2024: My collaborators Jood Otey and Steve Wilson are presenting our poster “Multilingual Error Analysis For Offensive Language” at Midwest Speech and Language Days in Ann Arbor
February 2024: I am teaching Natural Language Processing (CSCI 0457) in Spring 2024. It’s the first offering of NLP at Middlebury in over 10 years!
November 2023: I am traveling to TADA 🎉 (New Directions in Analyzing Text as Data) at Umass Amherst to present a poster on “Improving Mental Health Classifier Generalization with Pre-Diagnosis Data”
September 2023: I am traveling to ACII (Affective Computing + Intelligent Interaction) at the MIT Media Lab to present our paper, “Temporal Arcs of Mental Health: Patterns Behind Changes in Depression over Time”
September 2023: I am teaching Introduction to Computing (CSCI 0145) in Fall 2023
