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What I Do Now 💻 + 🎤
Machine learning scientist at Alexa AI working on the future of conversational artificial intelligence.
What I Did Before 🎓 + 👨🔬
Graduate student at Stanford University where I studied computer science and artificial intelligence. I spent 3 wonderful years as a researcher in the Stanford Natural Language Processing Group, where I had the unbelievable fortune to work with Christopher Manning, Percy Liang, Christopher Potts, and other brilliant people.
What Interests Me 🤖
Natural language understanding and anything related to machine learning. I spent years building goal-oriented dialogue agents and have worked on computational semantics and textual inference.
I also believe artificial intelligence will be one of the most transformative paradigm shifts in human history, so thinking about the implications of that keeps me pretty busy 🙂.
Fun Stuff 📲
I am the creator of a mobile app for learning artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. Check it out on the App Store and Google Play!
News 📰
September 2018: I was a reviewer for IEEE Access.
August 2018: Check out my blog post on why AI is so exciting!
July 2018: I was a reviewer for EMNLP 2018.
July 2018: I was selected as a top reviewer for ACL 2018! Thanks to the community for the acknowledgment!
February 2018: I led a Deep Learning Workshop at the Harvard Westlake School’s annual hackathon. Check out the slides here and the accompanying code.
August 2017: I gave a talk on key-value retrieval networks at SIGDial 2017 in Saarbrücken, Germany. Thanks to all the organizers for a fantastic conference!
July 2017: Our recent paper on the pragmatics of commands was accepted to the International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) 2017.
April 2017: I gave a talk on our work studying seq2seq architectures for dialogue at EACL 2017! I also presented the work at the Stanford Computer Forum Poster Session and gave a presentation about our dialogue research at the Ford Research and Innovation Center.
March 2017: Our paper on new models for collaborative dialogue agents has been accepted to ACL 2017!