I am a postdoctoral researcher (and Young Investigator) on the Mosaic team at AI2, with Prof. Yejin Choi, and at the University of Washington. I completed my PhD in Natural Language Pocessing at the NLP lab of Bar Ilan University, supervised by Prof. Ido Dagan and Prof. Reut Tsarfaty. I also was a visiting PhD student at UW NLP and had the pleasure of interning twice at the Allen Institute for AI. I am very honored to have received the AI2 Outstanding Intern of the Year Award. Previously I did a research internship at Google, obtained an MSc from the University of Edinburgh and a BA from the University of Zurich.

My research focuses on discourse, semantics and pragmatics. My main interest currently lies in question generation and using RL (with human feedback) for natural language generation. I am also interested in underspecified, ambiguous and implicit language and in teaching models how to better deal with such phenomena.

I am co-organizing the the Third Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language, collocated with EACL-2024 in Malta! I also co-organized the Second Workshop on Understanding Implicit and Underspecified Language, collocated with NAACL-2022 in Seattle.

Besides this I love rowing (currently at Lake Washington Rowing Club) and going to the “cinemathèque”. My Erdős number is 3 (Paul Erdős → Noga Alon → Ido Dagan → Me).

News

  • April 2024: Invited talk at the UMass NLP Seminar.
  • March 2024: Invited talk at the University of Edinburgh.
  • March 2024: Invited talk at Harvard.
  • March 2024: DAAD sponsored visit to the University of Saarbrücken, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and the University of Stuttgart.
  • February 2024: Invited talk at the UBC NLP group.
  • December 2023: Invited talk at Brown/Tübingen.
  • October 2023: Was selected as a DAAD AInet fellow
  • September 2023: Gave a talk at a local Seattle high school on deep learning, LLMs and ethics.
  • September 2023: Gave an invited talk at the KR 2023 workshop on Computational Machine Ethics.
  • May 2023: Paper accepted to ACL 2023!
  • March 2023: TACL paper accepted, to be presented at ACL 2023.
  • February 2023: Was awarded a postdoctoral scholarship from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Foundation.
  • January 2023: Very excited to have been awarded the AI2 Outstanding Intern of the Year Award!
  • December 2022: Preprint of my internship at AI2 is out.
  • November 2022: AI2 Hackathon Paper accepted at Workshop on Figurative Language Processing at EMNLP 2022.
  • October 2022: Paper accepted at EMNLP 2022.
  • September 2022: Paper accepted to TACL.
  • July 2022: Co-organized the UnImplicit workshop at NAACL-2022.
  • June 2022: Started my internship at AI2 Mosaic