Tal August

I am a Young Investigator (postdoc) at the Allen Institute for AI on the Semantic Scholar team and an incoming assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, starting Fall 2024. I recently finished my PhD at the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, advised by Katharina Reinecke and Noah Smith. I study ways to adapt language styles to different people and I build tools to make language adaptation automatic. I refer to this work as language as design because I see language as the ubiquitous interface we use to communicate and my work as finding new ways of designing language better for different people. The long term goal of my research is to improve our communication with one another and with technology.

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Ph.D. student applicants: I will be taking on new students in Fall 2024! If you are interest in HCI, NLP, communication, or reading and writing tools, I encourage you to apply to UIUC Computer Science and mention me in your application.