I am a final-year computer science Ph.D. candidate at University of Southern California. I work on natural language processing and applied machine learning, advised by Prof. Nanyun Peng (Plus Lab at UCLA) and Prof. Aram Galstyan at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI). My doctoral thesis/projects focus on creating novel machine learning models for event-centric reasoning with applications in information extraction, question answering and language generation.

I will defend my thesis in June, 2022. Post graduation, I will join AWS AI as an applied scientist to work on enterprise search. I am interested in fundamental NLP and machine learning research, but I am particularly passionate about leveraging AI tools to solve challenging real-world problems.

Prior to joining USC, I worked at Federal Reserve and Commonwealth Bank of Australia as a statistical researcher / data scientist while obtaining my Masters’ degree at NYU Center for Data Science (CDS) where I had the privilege to work with Prof. Kyunghyun Cho.