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Career

· Research Intern, Google DeepMind2025–
· Applied Research Scientist Intern, Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Labs2023–
· Teaching Assistant, Columbia University2023–2025
· Bachelor's degree, Columbia College2019–
· PhD in Computer Science, Columbia University2019–
· Data Scientist, UBS2019–

Publications (15)

COVID-Fact: Fact Extraction and Verification of Real-World Claims on COVID-19 Pandemic
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2021
143
cited
FLUTE: Figurative Language Understanding through Textual Explanations
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2022
93
cited
I Spy a Metaphor: Large Language Models and Diffusion Models Co-Create Visual Metaphors
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023
64
cited
Sociocultural Norm Similarities and Differences via Situational Alignment and Explainable Textual Entailment
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023
25
cited
NormDial: A Comparable Bilingual Synthetic Dialog Dataset for Modeling Social Norm Adherence and Violation
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023
22
cited
Don’t Go Far Off: An Empirical Study on Neural Poetry Translation
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2021
18
cited
Understanding Figurative Meaning through Explainable Visual Entailment
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2024
11
cited
A Report on the FigLang 2022 Shared Task on Understanding Figurative Language
FLP · 2022
10
cited
Learning to Follow Object-Centric Image Editing Instructions Faithfully
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023
10
cited
FLUTE: Figurative Language Understanding and Textual Explanations
arXiv.org · 2022
9
cited
ICLEF: In-Context Learning with Expert Feedback for Explainable Style Transfer
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2023
5
cited
A Report on the FigLang 2024 Shared Task on Multimodal Figurative Language
FIGLANG · 2024
4
cited
NormLens: Massively Multicultural MLLM Reasoning with Fine-Grained Social Awareness
1
cited
Death of the Novel(ty): Beyond n-Gram Novelty as a Metric for Textual Creativity
arXiv.org · 2025
VideoNorms: Benchmarking Cultural Awareness of Video Language Models
arXiv.org · 2025
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