Karina Halevy

Hello! My name is Karina, and I am a PhD student at the Carnegie Mellon University Language Technologies Institute, supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and co-advised by Mona Diab and Maarten Sap! Previously, I did my undergrad in Computer Science and History (jointly) with a minor in Statistics at Harvard College, where I worked with Professors Stuart Shieber, Elena Glassman, Cemal Kafadar, and Damián Blasi. I have also spent summers working with Carolina Brum (Apple), Antoine Bosselut, Syrielle Montariol (EPFL), and Jordan Hashemi (BBN Technologies). My main academic interest is in natural language processing/computational linguistics.

I am specifically interested in:

• carefully doing NLP for social science/social good (e.g. information extraction or visualization for legal/medical/historical material, hate speech/misinformation detection, public health advocacy)
• NLP for low-resource/non-Indo-European languages
• algorithmic fairness/ethics (especially for disabled people, ethnically minoritized people, & subpopulations too small to be included in most research due to lack of statistical significance)
• constructing evaluation metrics and benchmark datasets to make language models more understandable
• intersections of NLP with human-computer interaction and data visualization

I also dance.