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Education

  • 2017
    PhD
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    • Generating Variations in a Virtual Storyteller
  • 2013
    MS
    University of California, Santa Cruz
    • Really? Well. Apparently Bootstrapping Improves the Performance of Sarcasm and Nastiness Classifiers for Online Dialogue
  • 2011
    BA
    Loyola University Maryland

Experience

  • 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

  • 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)
  • 2020
    Where to next? Situated Dialogue with Robots for Search and Navigation.
    • Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial’20)

Program Committees

  • 2023
    • Reviewer | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL’23)
  • 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)
  • 2021
    • Reviewer | ACL Rolling Review (ARR’21)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 2016
    • Reviewer | International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS'16)

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Crochet, photography