Hi! I am a second year PhD student at Cornell University, advised by Prof. Tanya Goyal. I'm gratefully supported by an NSF GFRP Fellowship.


My research is in Natural Language Processing. At the moment, I am interested in empirical methods to improve our understanding of LMs. In the past, I also worked on continual learning and model editing for LMs.


I obtained my undergraduate degree at UT Austin, where I was first introduced to NLP. I was fortunate to work with Prof. Eunsol Choi, Prof. Greg Durrett, and Prof. Richard Tsai.


Publications


Shankar Padmanabhan, Yasumasa Onoe, Michael J.Q. Zhang, Greg Durrett, Eunsol Choi.



Preprints



Hobbies


In my free time, I am passionate about learning languages. Through a small amount of "supervised training" (Duolingo) and a large amount of "unsupervised training" (native media), I have become a fluent speaker of Spanish, and I am learning French and Tamil as well.
Additionally, I enjoy ultimate frisbee and calisthenics. I played for UT's ultimate frisbee team as an undergrad, and am currently working towards a one arm pull up and a full front lever hold.