☀️ This summer I am interning again with the AWS EC2 Enterprise team in Seattle ☕️🌲 and exploring network / model security on the side.
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 (and I'm an Eagle Scout!) ⛰️
I'm exploring the field of natural language processing with a focus on evaluation, modeling and deployment of constrained text generation models. 🤖
Dancing Between Success and Failure: Edit-level Simplification Evaluation using SALSA 💃
David Heineman, Yao Dou, Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu
preprint, arXiv:2305.14458
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
Breaking Bad
Baby Driver
Spirited Away
Listening to...
Wallows
Hobo Johnson
PARTYNEXTDOOR
Pink Floyd
Planet Money by NPR
Inspired by...
Immanuel Kant
John Snow
Maya Angelou
William Wordsworth
Blaise Pascal
Eating at...
Momonoki
Blue Donkey
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
Browsing...
Medium
The Atlantic