News

  • November 2024: The AANN paper with Kyle was awarded an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024!

  • October 2024: New preprint on characterizing the role of similarity in LMs’ property inferences with Juan Diego Rodriguez and Aaron Mueller. My first paper as a supervising author!

  • October 2024: Two papers accepted at EMNLP 2024: (1) on testing robust property inferences in LMs with experimental contexts, with Kyle and Allyson; and (2) characterizing LMs’ generalization to rare linguistic phenomena, with Kyle! Congrats to my co-authors!

  • October 2024: Talk at the Research at TTIC Seminar Series!

  • September 2024: I am co-organizing the TTIC/UChicago NLP Seminar along with Mina Lee and Zhewei Sun!

  • August 2024: I have now moved to Chicago! Excited to start as Research Faculty at TTIC!

  • July 2024: New preprint with Najoung Kim on using language models to generate novel experimental hypotheses.

  • June 2024: Talk at the Psychology of Language Lab (Adele Goldberg’s group) @ Princeton University.

  • April 2024: Talk at South by Semantics Workshop.

  • April 2024: New preprint about LMs’ learning of rare linguistic phenomena with Kyle!

  • March 2024: Talk at UT Austin Linguistics’ SynSem seminar.

  • January 2024: New preprint on few-shot COMPS with Allyson and Kyle!

  • November 2023: Presenting work on lexical category abstraction in BERT at BUCLD with Najoung Kim!

  • October 2023: Guest lecture at Eunsol Choi’s CS 395T class at UT Austin!

  • September 2023: Invited talks at C.Psyd (Marty van Schijndel’s lab) and TTIC!

  • August 2023: Moving to Austin to start my Postdoc with Kyle Mahowald at UT Austin! Excited for (KM)$^2$ projects!

  • July 2023: Successfully defended my dissertation, On semantic cognition, inductive generalization, and language models! Watch this space for what the future holds!

  • July 2023: Najoung Kim and I will be presenting our work on understanding lexical category membership inferences in BERT at BUCLD! Excited to visit Boston (and meet 🍪) in November!

  • July 2023: Paper with collaborators from Meta AI, MIT, and JHU was awarded an outstanding paper award at ACL 2023 – congratulations to my co-authors (Koustuv, Jon, Aaron, Keren, Roger, Adina)!

  • May 2023: COMPS was awarded the best paper award at EACL – congratulations to my co-authors, Julia and Allyson!!

  • May 2023: Paper from my Google Internship accepted at ACL 2023 Findings, paper with collaborators on context effects in minimal pair testing accepted at ACL 2023, and paper with collaborators from Google Brain/DeepMind accepted at ICML 2023! Big congrats to all my collaborators!

  • April 2023: Presented a talk at MIT about my PhD research! The Boston-Cambridge area has great people!

  • January 2023: COMPS was accepted at EACL (main conf)!

  • January 2023: New paper with collaborators from Google Brain, on LLMs and their distractability in demonstrating mathematical reasoning behavior out on arxiv!

  • December 2022: New paper on characterizing the aspects of context and their effects on language model minimal pair judgments with collaborators out on arxiv!

  • November 2022: Presented work at joint meeting of CPL Lab, Ev Lab, and Language and Intelligence Lab at MIT!

  • September 2022: Presented work at the Human and Machine Learning Lab at NYU CDS!

  • September 2022: Presented work at Computation and Psycholinguistics Lab at NYU CDS!

  • Aug 2022: Started internship at Google Research NYC – wonderful city!

  • Aug 2022: Successfully hosted discussion group on Neural Nets for Cognition at CogSci! Thanks to everyone who could make it, and my co-organizers: Jay McClelland, Judy Fan, and Felix Binder!

  • May 2022: Paper describing a paradigm to perform property induction with language models accepted at CogSci 2022! Check it out here!

  • May 2022: I will be interning at Google Research this fall! Feeling very fortunate!

  • March 2022: New preprint describing my library minicons out on arxiv. Check it out here!

  • February 2022: Presented my dissertation proposal at the AAAI 2022 Doctoral Consortium! Check out the corresponding poster here!

  • February 2022: Passed my PhD proposal!

  • January 2022: Happy to be selected as a Graduate Student Fellow in the inaugural Purdue Graduate School Mentoring Fellows program!

  • December 2021: Pleased to officially release documentation for my package minicons. Check it out on pypi!

  • November 2021: I recently gave a talk about some ideas on simulating property induction with language models at Allyson Ettinger’s research group at UChicago. Here are my slides.

  • October 2021: My thesis proposal was accepted to AAAI 2022 Doctoral Consortium! My application materials can be found here!

  • October 2021: Passed my prelim examination!

  • September 2021: Submitted a (tentative) thesis summary to the AAAI-2022 doctoral consortium!

  • July 2021: Presenting my paper on whether language models learn typicality at CogSci 2021!

  • May 2021: Our NAFIPS 2021 paper received an honorable mention for the Best Student Paper award.

  • April 2021: Paper about typicality ratings and language models with Allyson and Julia accepted accepted as a talk to CogSci 2021!

  • March 2021: Paper accepted to NAFIPS 2021!

  • February 2021: Submitted papers to ACL-IJCNLP 2021 and CogSci 2021.

  • October 2020: Passed my MS thesis defense!

  • October 2020: Presenting a poster about my Findings of EMNLP 2020 paper at Blackbox NLP!

  • September 2020: Paper with Allyson and Julia accepted for publication in Findings of EMNLP ! Preprint and Code coming soon!

  • September 2020: I was featured by the Purdue Graduate School on their social media! [Link].

  • August 2020: Congrats to my undergraduate advisees Qingyuan “Carol” Hu and Yi Zhang for their paper with Julia and me being accepted to ICCI*CC 2020!

  • July 2020: Presented a Poster with Allyson Ettinger and Julia at the first virtual CogSci!

  • May 2020: Paper with Julia accepted at NAFIPS'20!

  • May 2020: Poster with Allyson Ettinger and Julia accepted at CogSci 2020!

  • April 2020: Congrats to my undergraduate advisees Qingyuan “Carol” Hu and Yi Zhang for winning second place at the first Virtual Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference!