I'm a research associate at the University of Glasgow. I am currently finishing my PhD at Georgetown University, where I am an ARCS Endowed Scholar. I am a member of the Terrier Team and the IR Lab where I work on IR and NLP. My Phd advisors are Nazli Goharian and Ophir Frieder. I've done research internships at AI2, CNR, Adobe, and MPI-INF. Before graduate school, I worked as a software developer at IIT/SourceTech. Check out what I'm up to now!
I was awarded the AI2 Intern of the Year Award
With Arman Cohan and Nazli Goharian, we rocked Rounds 1 and 2 of COVID-Search
I had three papers accepted at SIGIR 2020
I passed my dissertation proposal
I've released OpenNIR as a demo at WSDM 2020
I'll be interning at AI2 this spring/summer in Seattle remotely
I had three papers accepted at SIGIR 2019
I was awarded the MWC ARCS Endowment Fellowship for 2019-20
I presented at the Workshop on Computing for Physical and Mental Health
Our SMHD poster won first place at the 2018 ICBI Symposium
Our paper Overcoming Low-Utility Facets for Complex Answer Retrieval was accepted in the Information Retrieval Journal Special Issue on Knowledge Graphs and Semantics in Text Analysis and Retrieval
Our Self-reported Mental Health Diagnoses paper is recognized as an Area Chair Favorite Paper at COLING 2018
I'll be presenting my work at SIGIR 2018 and NAACL 2018
I'll be interning at Adobe Research this summer
Our Contextualized PACRR model performed well at TREC CAR 2017
I was awarded best poster (2nd place) at the 2017 ICBI Symposium