I am a 3rd year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, West Lafayette. My research area is NLP and I am advised by Prof. Dan Goldwasser. Broadly, I am interested in studying language through computational methods, with a focus on social, cultural and multimodal contexts. I am also intersted in the interplay between NLP and traditional linguistics, particularly as it applies to lower resource languages.

My recently published paper, VIBE (Findings of EMNLP, 2025), investigated the social intelligence capabilities of Visual Language Models (VLMs). The paper revealed a previously overlooked limitation in VLMs: they struggle with making social pragmatic inferences about identified visual elements. To address this, the paper introduced a dataset targeted at evaluating this limitation.

Before starting my PhD, I worked for three years as a Software Engineer at Google, contributing to multiple teams, including the Languages and Linguistics team, where my work focused on low-resource languages. (see CV for details). I earned my Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2019.

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