I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the
University of British Columbia,
and a CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute.
My research interests focus on natural language processing,
with the fundamental goal of building models capable of human-level understanding of natural
language.
I'm interested in computational semantics and pragmatics, and commonsense reasoning.
I'm currently working on learning to uncover implicit meaning, which is abundant in human speech,
developing machines with advanced reasoning skills, multimodal models, and culturally-aware NLP models.
Before joining UBC, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Allen
Institute
for AI (AI2) and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer
Science & Engineering at the University of
Washington.
Prior to that, I did my PhD (2019), M.Sc. (2015), and B.Sc. (2013) in Computer Science in Bar-Ilan
University. I was part of the Natural Language Processing
lab
where I worked on lexical and compositional semantics.