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MILESTONE Feb 2026
Thrilled to announce that I have defended my PhD titled LLMs as Sociotechnical Actors: A Scaffolding Framework for Recovering Context Lost in Text-Only Settings. Grateful to everyone who supported this work!
AWARD Nov 2025
The PATHs paper received a Senior Area Chair Highlight award at EMNLP 2025!
MILESTONE Aug 2025
Started as a Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft and moved to the Seattle area! I will continue working on human-agent collaboration for productivity.
PAPER Aug 2025
Our paper PATHs is accepted to EMNLP 2025! See you in Suzhou, China.
PAPER Jul 2025
LawFlow is accepted to COLM 2025! See you in Montreal.
ANNOUNCEMENT Apr 2025
LawFlow, which captures lawyers’ end-to-end thought processes, is out on ArXiv!
TALK Dec 2024
Gave a talk titled When AI Learns to Listen: Generative AI in the Social Sciences to high school students at the Sparkway Learning PythonAI Workshop 2024.
TALK Nov 2024
Honored to be a speaker at the Women in AI and Data Science Conference 2024, discussing the impact of artifacts in LLM-generated data.
MILESTONE Oct 2024
Thrilled to be interning at the Office of Applied Research at Microsoft this fall!
AWARD Oct 2024
Received the 2024 AnitaB.org Advancing Inclusion Scholarship!
PAPER Jul 2024
Our paper Publics’ Perceptions of Legitimacy in Corporate Social Advocacy: A Computational Analysis of the Influence of Ideological Congruence is published in Public Relations Review.
TALK Jul 2024
Gave a talk titled Beyond Words: Incorporating Graph Data into LLMs for Comprehensive Social System Analysis at IC2S2 2024.
TALK Jun 2024
Presented Which Modality should I use? at NAACL 2024 in Mexico City! [Tweet]
MILESTONE Jun 2024
Thrilled to be interning at Microsoft Research this summer!
TALK May 2024
Presented my recent paper on LLM-generated artifacts at Megagon Labs, along with Dongyeop Kang.
MILESTONE Apr 2024
Passed my Thesis Proposal Exam :) One more exam to go until my defense!
PAPER Apr 2024
Abstract Beyond Words: Incorporating Graph Data into LLMs for Comprehensive Social System Analysis selected for oral presentation at IC2S2 2024!
ANNOUNCEMENT Jan 2024
Under the Surface: Tracking the Artifactuality of LLM-Generated Data is out on ArXiv. This paper marks my first venture as a project team lead and MinnesotaNLP’s first lab-wide project!
ANNOUNCEMENT Dec 2023
New preprint at the intersection of graphs and LLMs — Which Modality should I use — Text, Motif, or Image? Understanding Graphs with Large Language Models is out on ArXiv!
PAPER May 2023
Our work on Rebuilding Social Connection and Enhancing Advertising Effects Through the Nostalgic Appeal during the Pandemic was accepted to AEJMC 2023.
PAPER Jan 2023
Our work on Work In Progress: Reactions to Incivility: A Computational Approach to Measuring Affective Polarization on Twitter During the First 2020 U.S. Presidential Debate was accepted to ICA 2023.
PAPER Jan 2023
Our work on Publics’ Perceptions of Legitimacy in Corporate Social Advocacy: A Computational Analysis of the Influence of Ideological Congruence was accepted to ICA 2023.
PAPER Oct 2022