I’m a PhD student studying Computer Science at the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing, advised by Prof. Mark Dredze. I’ve interned at Microsoft on the Knowledge and Reasoning in Language team, mentored by Dr. Sujay Jauhar and Dr. Silviu Cucerzan. Previously I was a Pre-Doctoral Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI on the Semantic Scholar team, advised by Prof. Dan Weld. I am originally from Texas and completed my B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin in 2019, advised by Prof. Jessy Li and Prof. Greg Durrett.

My research interests are in Natural Language Processing. In particular, I am interested in text generation, summarization, language modeling, natural language understanding, and computational social science. In my free time, I enjoy powerlifting, baking, and spending time with my dog.

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News

2023

• “These tools help visually impaired scientists read data and journals” by Alla Katsnelson. Nature.
• “TLDRs Help to Cut Through the Clutter” by Dany Haddad. AI2 Blog.

2022

• “New voices in AI: Isabel Cachola”. Interview with Joe Daly. AIhub.

2021

• Won Best Artifact Award at ASSETS 2021.
• Keynote speaker at NLP Summit 2021.
• Named National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Collegiate Award Honorable Mention.
• Named NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention.

2020

• “TL;DR - Extreme Summarization as a service with Isabel Cachola.” Interview on The Hanselminutes Podcast with Scott Hanselman.
• “tl;dr: this AI sums up research papers in a sentence” by Jeffrey M. Perkel & Richard Van Noorden. Nature.
• “An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI” by Karen Hao. MIT Technology Review.
• “Introducing TLDRs on Semantic Scholar.” Medium.
• TLDRs are released on Semantic Scholar! Semantic Scholar Landing Page.
• “TLDR Generation of Scientific Documents.” Interview with DAIR.AI.

2019

• Named Dean’s Honored Graduate with Distinction in Research.
• Received the Aspire Award for Research Excellence.

2018

• “Watch Your Mouth: Researching the Effects of Vulgarity in Social Media.” UT Austin College of Liberal Arts Newsletter.