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· PhD student in EECS, UC Berkeley2023–
· PhD Student, UC Berkeley, EECS Department2021–

Publications (22)

The Zeno’s Paradox of ‘Low-Resource’ Languages
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2024
17
cited
“I Searched for a Religious Song in Amharic and Got Sexual Content Instead’’: Investigating Online Harm in Low-Resourced Languages on YouTube.
Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency · 2024
15
cited
Co-Designing for Transparency: Lessons from Building a Document Organization Tool in the Criminal Justice Domain
Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency · 2023
9
cited
DyGraph: a dynamic graph generator and benchmark suite
GRADES-NDA@SIGMOD · 2022
8
cited
The Less the Merrier? Investigating Language Representation in Multilingual Models
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2023
7
cited
Enhancing Translation for Indigenous Languages: Experiments with Multilingual Models
AMERICASNLP · 2023
6
cited
Low-Resourced Languages and Online Knowledge Repositories: A Need-Finding Study.
International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · 2024
6
cited
The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages
arXiv.org · 2023
6
cited
Gender Bias Evaluation in Machine Translation for Amharic, Tigrigna, and Afaan Oromoo
GITT · 2024
3
cited
mRAKL: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Graph Construction for Low-Resourced Languages
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · 2025
3
cited
A Need Finding Study with Low-Resource Language Content Creators
African Conference on Human Computer Interaction · 2023
1
cited
Cognate Detection for Historical Language Reconstruction of Proto-Sabean Languages: the Case of Ge'ez, Tigrinya, and Amharic
International Conference on Computational Linguistics · 2025
1
cited
Into the Void: Understanding Online Health Information in Low-Web Data Languages
Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society · 2025
1
cited
Special Interest Group: Evaluating Research From and About the Global Majority
CSCW Companion · 2025
1
cited
A Capabilities Approach to Studying Bias and Harm in Language Technologies
arXiv.org · 2024
A Case Against Implicit Standards: Homophone Normalization in Machine Translation for Languages that use the Ge'ez Script
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · 2025
Evaluating Machine Translation Datasets for Low-Web Data Languages: A Gendered Lens
arXiv.org · 2025
Examining the Cultural Encoding of Gender Bias in LLMs for Low-Resourced African Languages
Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP) · 2025
Exploitation All the Way Down: Calling out the Root Cause of Bad Online Experiences for Users of the "Majority World"
arXiv.org · 2024
Exploring Transliteration-Based Zero-Shot Transfer for Amharic ASR
Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on African Natural Language Processing (AfricaNLP 2025) · 2025
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