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! I am co-advised by Mona Diab and Maarten Sap. My main academic interest is in natural language processing/computational linguistics.

I am specifically interested in:

• constructing evaluation metrics and benchmark datasets to make large language models more understandable (e.g. what linguistic information are they really capturing, what latent biases do they have, why does model x perform better than model y on task z)
• doing NLP for low-resource/non-Indo-European languages
• carefully doing NLP for social science/social good (e.g. information extraction or visualization for long legal/medical/historical texts, hate speech detection)
• algorithmic fairness/ethics (especially for disabled people, ethnically minoritized people, & people who are marginalized in multiple ways)
• intersections of NLP with human-computer interaction and data visualization

I also dance.