Biography

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Center for Language and Speech Processing supervised by Benjamin Van Durme, where I am generously supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. My work focuses mostly on transforming text into representations of its meaning, often with a general aim of communicating with agents (both digital and human). Most recently, I have been working on multimodal grounding and human-robot interaction, as well as semantic parsing for Universal Decompositional Semantics. Before starting my Ph.D., I received my B.A.&Sc. with First Class Honours in Cognitive Science from McGill University, focusing in computer science and linguistics. While at McGill, I worked as a research assistant at the Montreal Language Modeling Lab (MLML), now MCQLL. I wrote my honours thesis (supervised by Timothy O’Donnell) on a variational inference algorithm for a model of language acquisition.