About
I'm a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind working on grounded language learning, interpretability and safety of LLMs. I finished my PhD at Brown University advised by (the incredible) Ellie Pavlick, and also worked with Stefanie Tellex, George Konidaris, Michael Littman, and a lot of the other wonderful people at Brown. As an undergrad, I was advised by Ani Nenkova and Byron Wallace in various areas of machine learning and language processing.
My research is at the intersection of language, grounding and safety, aiming towards building more intelligent and interpretable agents that can learn to use language to communicate and coordinate with each other.
Language can be a powerful tool to help agents learn and adapt from small amounts of human-intelligible data. I'm specifically interested in (1) using the structure of language to aid reinforcement learning and multi-agent algorithms, (2) allowing language to be used for communication between agents and (3) methods for better interpretability of models that use language to allow safer and more ethical systems.
Apart from work, I enjoy reading vast amounts of literature, going to new mountains, and to coffeeshops. Feel free to reach out with research related questions or otherwise!
