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PhD in Computer Science

• Worked on a Brain-Computer interface project as a spelling system
• Conducted research on long-tail phenomena in language
  • Developed an icon-based language system.
  • Developed a language mispronunciation detection algorithm.
  • Developed a retrieval-based LM that predicts rare tokens.

B.Sc. in Biomendical Engineering

• Conducted a feasiblity test for a Text2Speech system for Hebrew.
• Implemeted a unit selection approach for Hebrew speech synthesis.

Research Scientist

• As a researcher my main activities are applying for funding as well as conducting research on technical and socio-technical domains.
• A prominent topic in researching long-tails of distributions and identities.
  • Work on questions around personalization and perspective-centered design.
  • Work on long tail understanding of LLMs.
  • Work on participatory engagement for elders.
  • Work on Search Engine design challenges.
  • Happy to collaborate on funding and research on these and similar topics.

Research Associate

• Worked on a student- and teacher- centered AI classroom chatbot
• Developed a interruption detection tool for equitable classroom participation.
• Worked on a dependency based dialogue act to analyse classroom social dynamic.

Machine Learning researcher

• Developed a malware detection algorithm based on topic modelling

• Won Best Paper Award for "Analyzing Cultural Representations of Emotions in LLMs through Mixed Emotion Surve" paper in ACII

• Selected for the 2023 Women in AI Ethics
• Was given seed award for Robotics summer camp outreach activity

• WiML@ICML award recipient to attend WiML and ICML
• WiNLP Diversity and Inclusion award recipient to attend WiNLP and ACL
• Won second Best Paper Award for "Are some words worth more than Others?" in Eval4NLP workshop

• Student Research Workshop (SRW) travel award to attend ACL
• Graduate Student Organization (GSO) at OHSU travel award to attend NAACL

• GREPSEC cybersecurity workshop scholarship and travel award

• Voices and Chices, Who’s missing in AI? Building a More Inclusive Future, Colorado Office of Information Technology

• Value-based Research, Cigna Inc.

• Personalization and Relevance in NLG, UserNLP workshop, WWW conference

• Responsible Dialogue Systems, guest speaker NLP class, CU Boulder
• Overcoming Limitations of Categorical Neural Language Models, The Hebrew University

• Overcoming Limitations of Categorical Neural Language Models, Allen Institute for AI
• A Proposal for Language Model Approaches in ECOG based AAC, Chang Lab, UCSF-Berkeley

• Language Models in BCI Systems, Women Who Code, Portland, OR

• Towards Icon Language Models, Natural Language Processing Workshop, BCI Meeting