I am not hiring PhD students in the 2023/2024 application cycle!
I am an Assistant Professor in the Kahlert School of Computing at the University of Utah . My primary research interests are at the confluence of natural language processing (NLP) , explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) , and multimodality . I am interested in projects that (1) rigorously validate AI technologies, and (2) make human interaction with AI more intuitive .
For an example of robust validation check out our work on carefully designing benchmarks to validate robustness of QA models in the presence of common linguistic phenomena such as negation or coreference . On the other hand, to help people create a mental model about how to interact with AI, I have contributed to building models that self-explain their predictions in a way that is easily understandable to people. For example by saying why did the model give this answer instead of another one ( contrastive e