Diagnosing how language technologies fail communities, and building methods for cultural pluralism.
I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Computer Science at UCLA, advised by Kai-Wei Chang. I am supported by the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship and the GEM Fellowship Program.
I diagnose how language technologies fail the communities they act on, and I build the datasets and evaluations that make those failures measurable, treating the disagreement, dialect, and context of marginalized communities as signal to model rather than noise to resolve.
Disagreement
Community-grounded models for subjective language
Variation
Preserving linguistic, identity, and social norm variation
Deployment
Governing responsible deployment in high-stakes domains
Looking ahead
My future lab will build modeling frameworks, methods, and tools that let language technologies support cultural pluralism, grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration.
✨ Beyond research, I love community service and watching anime!