Hello!

I am a first-year PhD student at the Conversational AI Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Dr. Dilek Hakkani-Tur and Dr. Gokhan Tur.

My research interests lie in the intersection of natural language processing and machine learning, with a focus on dialogue systems. I am currently working on evaluating the persuasive capabilities of conversational agents. I am also interested in long-context dialogue understanding and generation.

Prior to joining UIUC, I received my B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 2024. During my undergraduate studies, I worked with Dr. Steve Bethard from the CLU Lab on the tasks of multilingual intimacy analysis and spoiler detection and generation.