About
I am a second-year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Southern California, advised by David Traum (Natural Language Dialogue group) and Xiang Ren (INK Lab).
Previously, I earned a B.S. in Computer Science with a concentration in Language Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University. At CMU, I was fortunate to be advised by Louis-Philippe Morency, Yonatan Bisk, and Fernando De la Torre. I also interned at EPFL with Antoine Bosselut.
My research is at the intersection of social intelligence and natural language processing. The goal of my research is to make LLMs more natural and effective at communicating with humans and align their behavior with human expectations, by leveraging relevant social theories such as conversational grounding. Some broad problems I am interested in working on are improving LLMs' social interaction and task completion in real-world settings of long multi-turn conversations and group conversations with multiple humans.
My research is supported by the USC Annenberg Fellowship.