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 Shaghayegh Agah (Comcast), 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.