Hi there 👋! I’m a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park where I work with Profs. Rachel Rudinger and Jordan Boyd-Graber.

I’m a member of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing (CLIP) Lab in UMIACS.

Before coming to Maryland, I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at Lyft on the Applied Machine Learning team, and before that, I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, where I was working with Jessy Li on elaboration during text simplification.

My research interests lie in natural language processing, particularly in natural language understanding, including problems such as commonsense reasoning, textual inference, and pragmatics.

Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2021 -

    University of Maryland, College Park

  • MS in Computer Science, 2020

    University of Texas at Austin

  • BS in Computer Science, 2019

    University of Texas at Austin

News

June 2025: I'll be joining Amazon Alexa as an Applied Scientist Intern this summer in Bellevue, WA!
May 2025: Our paper on poorly-posed information-seeking questions has been accepted to ACL 2025!
May 2025: Our paper "NLI under the Microscope" received the Outstanding Paper Award at NAACL 2025!
February 2025: Our paper "NLI under the Microscope: What Atomic Decomposition Reveals" has been accepted to NAACL 2025!
May 2024: Our paper "Pregnant Questions: The Importance of Pragmatic Awareness in Maternal Health Question Answering" has been accepted to NAACL 2024!
May 2024: I'll be joining the document intelligence lab at Adobe Research as a Research Intern this summer in College Park, MD working with Ani Nenkova and Victor Soares-Bursztyn!
January 2024: Our paper on paraphrastic variability in NLU has been accepted to TACL!
May 2023: I'm joining Amazon AWS Research as an Applied Scientist Intern this summer in Santa Clara, CA!
April 2022: Our paper on revisiting partial input baselines in NLI has been accepted to NAACL 2022 main conference!
Fall 2021: I joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park as a PhD student! I'll be working under Profs. Rachel Rudinger and Jordan Boyd-Graber.
Aug 2021: Our paper on elaborative simplification was accepted to the Findings of ACL 2021!

Recent Publications

No Questions are Stupid, but some are Poorly Posed: Understanding Poorly-Posed Information-Seeking Questions

ACL 2025 (Main Conference)

ACL 2025 (Main Conference).

NAACL 2025 (Main Conference).🏆 Outstanding Paper Award
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NAACL 2024 (Main Conference).
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TACL 2024.
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NAACL 2022 (Main Conference).
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Findings of ACL 2021.
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