David Heineman

Hey! I'm David 👋

I'm a fourth year at Georgia Tech studying computer science. I work on intelligent systems, language and information networks.


More about me

I grew up in Marietta, Georgia and now live a half-hour down in Midtown Atlanta where I'm currently in my final year at Georgia Tech. I thoroughly enjoy reading, hiking, apprasing knives and making homebrew nitrogen cold brew. ☕️ ⛰️

I'm exploring the field of natural language processing with a focus on evaluation, modeling and deployment of constrained text generation models. My research has focused on challenges in text simplification and fine-grained evaluation w.r.t. LLMs.

Professionally, I've built open-source LLM deployments at AWS, deployed ML infrastructure for healthcare at the Atlanta-based startup Pateintco and have served as a teaching assistant for upper-level algorithms and NLP at Georgia Tech.


Publications & Preprints ✒️

Thresh 🌾: A Unified, Customizable and Deployable Platform for Fine-Grained Text Evaluation [thresh.tools]
David Heineman, Yao Dou, Wei Xu
EMNLP Demo, 2023

Dancing Between Success and Failure: Edit-level Simplification Evaluation using SALSA 💃 [code/data]
David Heineman, Yao Dou, Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu
EMNLP, 2023

LENS 🔎: A Learnable Evaluation Metric for Text Simplification
Mounica Maddela*, Yao Dou*, David Heineman, Wei Xu
ACL, 2023

* = equal contribution


What I've been building 👷

My past work 🌳

My recommendations

Wanted to add some personal flair

Watching...


Daisy Jones & The Six

The Cohen Brothers

Bong Joon-ho

Baby Driver

Spirited Away


Listening to...


Planet Money by NPR

Wallows

Hobo Johnson

PARTYNEXTDOOR

Pink Floyd


Inspired by...


Immanuel Kant

John Snow

Maya Angelou

William Wordsworth

Blaise Pascal


Eating at...


Momonoki

Top Pot Doughnuts

The Nook

Cypress

Waffle House 🧇


Flipping through...


Games, Puzzles, and Computation by Erik Demaine

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

Society Must be Defended by Michel Foucault

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace