def about_me():
I'm an incoming PhD student at Penn NLP 
, where I will have the privilege to be advised by Mark Yatskar. I am interested in language for grounded social interactions.
My work is generously supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Previously, I completed a BS in Computer Science and BS in Applied Math at USC Viterbi 
. I am very fortunate to have worked with Maja Matariฤ, Jesse Thomason, and Stefanos Nikolaidis. My undergraduate research was on language and vision (Interspeech 2023), social inference and reasoning (ACII 2022), and learning from synthetic data (AAAI 2024).
I have had the pleasure to intern at the CMU Robotics Institute 
with Jean Oh, MIT Haystack Observatory 
with Mary Knapp, and at Tsinghua University 
with Shaoxu Song.
I am extremely grateful for my peers, collaborators, and community who have helped me immensely, including Leena Mathur, Lauren Klein, Tejas Srinivasan, Serena Booth, Matthew Fontaine, Beverley-Claire Okogwu, Peter Schaldenbrand, Eliot Xing, members and alumni from CAIS++ 
and our advisor Bistra Dilkina.
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2024
JUN 11 Virtual ๐Upcoming invited talk in the Cohere for AI: Community Talks series.Virtual ๐APR 04 Award ๐Awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund my graduate studies!Award ๐FEBAPR Award ๐Awarded USC university-wide awards: Discovery Scholar and Global Scholar.Award ๐FEB 20-27 Vancouver, Canada ๐จ๐ฆPresented ๐ QDGS for Learning w/ Synthetic Data at AAAI 2024.Vancouver, Canada ๐จ๐ฆ2023
AUG 20-24 Dublin, Ireland ๐ฎ๐ชPresented ๐ Multimodal Speech Recognition for Language-Guided Embodied Agents at Interspeech 2023.Dublin, Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช-
JUNAUG Pittsburgh, PA ๐บ๐ธInterned at the CMU Robotics Institute, advised by Jean Oh.Pittsburgh, PA ๐บ๐ธ JUN 04-10 Rhodes, Greece ๐ฌ๐ทPresented ๐ Removing RFI from AKR with Autoencoders at ICASSP 2023.Rhodes, Greece ๐ฌ๐ทMAR 31 Award ๐Awarded the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, one of two USC students.Award ๐2022
OCT 18-21 Nara, Japan ๐ฏ๐ตPresented ๐ Evaluating Temporal Patterns in Applied Infant Affect Recognition at ACII 2022.Nara, Japan ๐ฏ๐ตJUNAUG Westford, MA ๐บ๐ธInterned at the MIT Haystack Observatory, advised by Mary Knapp.Westford, MA ๐บ๐ธ2021
JUNAUG Virtual ๐Interned remotely at Tsinghua University, advised by Shaoxu Song.Virtual ๐2020
AUG 17 Los Angeles, CA ๐บ๐ธStarted at the University of Southern California to pursue a BS in Computer Science and a BS in Applied Math.Los Angeles, CA ๐บ๐ธ- Show past events
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