Biography

I grew up as a first-generation immigrant in California before attending the University of California, Berkeley to study Computer Science and Linguistics. As a non-standard dialect speaker, I have seen first-hand how globalized communication has intensified pressures to convert to specific languages in exchange for economic reward. While getting my bachelors, I was exposed to natural language processing and its capacity to make information and tools more broadly accessible by allowing interactions with technology to take place in human languages. At the same time, I noticed that the field still primarily focuses on a small set of languages. My goal is to make natural language processing equally functional for all languages, in all their variations, to prevent a further loss of linguistic and cultural diversity. Specifically, I want to create natural language interfaces for computational systems so minority language speakers can use them without altering their method of communication.

Previous Education

University of California, Berkeley Computer Science, Linguistics 2022