About Me
Hi! I'm a PhD student at UC Berkeley advised by Alane Suhr affiliated with
Berkeley AI Research and Berkeley NLP.
I recieved my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder in May 2024 where I was advised by
Katharina von der Wense in the NALA lab. My research interests broadly include
natural language processing and machine learning.
More specifically, I have worked on NLP for education and low-resource langauge revitalization. I'm currently interested in cognitively inspired
NLP approaches and computational psycholinguistics.
I grew up in Boulder, Colorado and love hiking, reading, watching movies, and playing piano. I also love to travel and learn new
languages! I'm currently learning Spanish, Japanese, and Korean :)
Publications
- Evaluating LLMs as Tools to Support Early Vocabulary Learning. Jennifer Weber, Maria Valentini, Téa Wright, Katharina von der Wense, and Eliana Colunga. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024.
- On the Automatic Generation and Simplification of Children's Stories. Maria Valentini, Jennifer Weber, Jesus Salcido, Téa Wright, Eliana Colunga, and Katharina von der Wense. EMNLP, 2023.
Awards
- UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship (2024-2025)
- CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award - Honorable Mention (2024)
Contact
Please send me an email if you'd like to chat :)