🍂 This fall I am applying to graduate school, finishing my undergraduate thesis ✍️ and helping lead NLP (CS 4650) as a teaching assistant.
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.
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
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