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If you are interested in working with me, instead of emailing me please fill out this interest survey. This is the best way of getting in touch with me.

Ph.D. applicants: I will be taking new students in Fall 2024! If you are interested in HCI, NLP, communication, or reading and writing tools, I encourage you to apply for a PhD at the UIUC Department of Computer Science and mention me in your application.

I love working with motivated students at the intersection of HCI and NLP. My focus is on human-centered problems and so I predominantly contribute to HCI research. I also often contribute to NLP research because my work uses computational methods to quantify and adapt language. Working in my group will always include a focus on a human problem, whether we are running experiments, building new interfaces, or training new models. Some examples of ongoing projects and future plans:

• Making medical and scientific language readable for people beyond doctors and researchers
• Building technologies to support languages beyond English
• Helping online communities welcome new members
• Studying what barriers people face when reading legal language