News

2025

Oct 27, 2025 My second-author work MedExpert: An Expert-Annotated Dataset for Medical Chatbot Evaluation was accepted to AHLI Machine Learning for Health (ML4H) Symposium 2025. [paper]

2024

Jun 01, 2024 Interned on the Gemini Live team at Google in Summer 2024, working on improving large language model decoding speed with speculative decoding. My mentors were Mingqing Chen and Ananda Theertha Suresh.

2023

Dec 01, 2023 Attended EMNLP 2023 in Singapore.
Sep 01, 2023 Spent Fall 2023 in Tokyo as a Global Intern at Sony Research on the Speech and Language AI Team.
Jun 17, 2023 Talk at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence 2023 as part of the r/AskAcademia: Special Considerations in the Practice of Using Reddit for Substance Use Research workshop. Presenting “r/AskAComputerScientist: Processing Reddit Data for the Social Sciences.”
May 12, 2023 Johns Hopkins Hub story covering my joint project with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on mining health concerns surrounding electronic cigarettes from Reddit.
Apr 22, 2023 Attended the 10th Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL 2023) at George Mason University in Arlington, VA.
Mar 01, 2023 Presented “Automated Discovery of Perceived Health-related Outcomes about E-cigarettes from Reddit” at the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) 2023 in San Antonio, TX.

2022

Nov 01, 2022 Presented “Bernice: A Multilingual Pre-trained Encoder for Twitter” at EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. [paper]
Apr 30, 2022 Attended the 9th Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL 2022) at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA.

2021

Nov 01, 2021 Presented a poster at the Noisy User Generated Text workshop at EMNLP 2021 in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. [paper]
Aug 06, 2021 Presented poster at the Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM) workshop at ACL-IJCNLP 2021. [paper]
Aug 05, 2021 LANL Applied Machine Learning program work “Automated Detection and Characterization of Pathological Online Behavior” presented by co-author Lissa Moore at the Beyond Misinformation workshop (INDE2021).
Jun 01, 2021 Interned at Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) as an Applied Machine Learning (AML) Fellow under Lissa Moore.
Apr 23, 2021 Attended the CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women 2021.

2020

Nov 19, 2020 Undergraduate collaborator Justin Sech presented a poster at the Noisy User Generated Text workshop at EMNLP 2020. [paper]
Nov 13, 2020 Talk at Machine Learning for Computing Systems (MLCS 2020) at Supercomputing 2020: “Early Prediction of High Performance Computing Job Outcomes via Modeling System Text Logs.”
Jul 23, 2020 Talk and computational creativity coffee break at the Animal Crossing Artificial Intelligence Workshop (ACAI) 2020 on interactive narrative generation.

2019

Aug 29, 2019 Started a PhD in Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) under Mark Dredze.
Jul 01, 2019 Spotlight in the Los Alamos Daily Post for volunteering at the Los Alamos Makerspace.

2018

Dec 03, 2018 Presented LANL research at the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) workshop at NeurIPS 2018.
Oct 31, 2018 Presented LANL research at the Chesapeake Large-Scale Analytics Conference (CLSAC) poster session.
Jul 16, 2018 Returned to Los Alamos National Laboratory on the High Performance Computing Design / Ultrascale Research Center team as a post-baccalaureate researcher, applying ML and NLP to system log analysis.
May 13, 2018 Graduated from Rollins College summa cum laude with a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Mar 01, 2018 Article about my involvement in a Google IgniteCS project bringing computer science education to Orlando elementary schools.

2017

Jul 13, 2017 Rollins College featured my internship at Los Alamos National Lab on their Instgram Summer Spotlight Series.
Apr 20, 2017 Rollins College Sandspur article on my role organizing Rollins’ participation in Orlando’s March for Science 2017.
Jan 16, 2017 Featured in ReigningIt as part of their “Women Who Reign” series.

2016

May 11, 2016 Wrote a petition promoting staff diversity and global citizenship at Rollins College.