About

I am a third-year PhD student in the AI Lab at the University of Michigan, where I am advised by Prof. Emily Mower Provost. Before that, I received my B.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, where I was advised by Prof. Louis-Philippe Morency.

I work on Natural Language Processing and Speech Processing in the context of emotional and social intelligence in AI. Specifically, I have worked on (1) speech emotion recognition [ICASSP 2025, ICASSP 2026] and (2) emotion evidence benchmarking in LLMs [AACL 2025]. I am interested in expanding this research to improve human-agent and multi-agent interaction.

News

• January 2026: ‘What You Feel Is Not What They See: On Predicting Self-Reported Emotion from Third-Party Observer Labels’ accepted to ICASSP 2026 [link]
• October 2025: ‘SEER: The Span-Based Emotion Evidence Retrieval Benchmark’ accepted to AACL 2025 [link]
• May 2025: Passed my preliminary/qualifying exam and advanced to candidacy
• April 2025: Presented ‘Efficient Finetuning for Dimensional Speech Emotion Recognition in the Age of Transformers’ at ICASSP 2025 [link]