I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science in the Stanford NLP group. My research focuses on improving language technologies to better serve the populations who are typically overlooked in NLP. Grounded in humanistic insights, I develop NLP techniques to understand the social impacts of technology, from anthropomorphism to social biases. I am advised by Dan Jurafsky and supported by the Knight-Hennessy Scholarship and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Previously, I did my undergraduate at Caltech, where I double-majored in computer science and history. I’ve also spent time at Microsoft Research (on the FATE team with Alexandra Olteanu and Su Lin Blodgett, and with Adam Kalai) and DeepMind.

Contact

My email is myra [at] cs [dot] stanford [dot] edu.

Updates

October 2024: Attending AIES.

October 2024: “I Am the One and Only, Your Cyber BFF”: Understanding the Impact of GenAI Requires Understanding the Impact of Anthropomorphic AI.