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Education
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2017 PhD
University of California, Santa Cruz - Generating Variations in a Virtual Storyteller
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2013 MS
University of California, Santa Cruz - Really? Well. Apparently Bootstrapping Improves the Performance of Sarcasm and Nastiness Classifiers for Online Dialogue
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2011 BA
Loyola University Maryland
Experience
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2018 - present Computer Science Researcher
Army Research Laboratory -
2017 Postdoctorate Fellow
Army Research Laboratory -
2011 - 2017 Graduate Student Researcher
University of California, Santa Cruz -
2016 Software Engineer Intern
Google, New York -
2015 Research Intern
Microsoft Research, Redmond -
2013 Research Intern
Xerox PARC, Palo Alto
Invited Talks
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2020 How Many Different Ways Could You Tell a Story about a Sequence of Images? Procedural Expression for Narrative and Dialogue Generation and Visual Storytelling
- The 16th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE'20)
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2020 Where to next? Situated Dialogue with Robots for Search and Navigation.
- Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial’20)
Program Committees
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2024 - OC | Games and Natural Language Processing (Games and NLP’24) at LREC-COLING 2024
- Reviewer | Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING'24)
- Reviewer | Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics (SpLU-RoboNLP'24)
- Reviewer | IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2023 - Reviewer | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’23)
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2022 - OC | Games and Natural Language Processing (Games and NLP’22) at LREC 2022
- Area Chair | International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING’22)
- Reviewer | International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS’22)
- Reviewer | ACL Rolling Review (ARR’22)
- Reviewer | Special Interest Group on Dialogue (SIGDIAL’22)
- Reviewer | Creative AI Across Modalities
- Reviewer | Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'22)
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2021 - Reviewer | ACL Rolling Review (ARR’21)
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2020 - Co-Chair | Games and Natural Language Processing (GAMNLP'20) at LREC 2020
- Co-Chair | Special Session on Situated Dialogue with Virtual Agents and Robots (RoboDial’20) at SIGDIAL 2020
- Session Chair | Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial’20)
- Reviewer | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’20)
- Reviewer | Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’20)
- Reviewer | Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’20)
- Reviewer | International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS'20)
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2019 - Co-Chair | Storytelling Workshop (StoryNLP'19) at ACL 2019
- Co-Chair | Games and Natural Language Processing (GAMNLP'19) at FDG 2019
- Publication Co-Chair | North American Association Computational Linguistics (NAACL'19)
- Area Chair, Generation | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'19)
- Reviewer | North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'19)
- Reviewer | Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'19)
- Reviewer | Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL’19)
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2018 - Co-Chair | Special Session on Physically Situated Dialogue (RoboDial’18) at SIGDIAL 2018
- Publication Co-Chair | North American Association Computational Linguistics (NAACL'18)
- Reviewer | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'18)
- Reviewer | North American Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL'18)
- Reviewer | Storytelling Workshop at NAACL (StoryNLP'18)
- Reviewer | Student Research Workshop at NAACL (SRW'18)
- Reviewer | Joint workshop of Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT’18) and Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED’18)
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2017 - Reviewer | International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS'17)
- Reviewer | Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT'17)
- Reviewer | International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP'17)
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2016 - Reviewer | International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS'16)
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Crochet, photography