| Jun 23, 2025 | 🛎️ new preprint on examing the role and impact of referemce set choice on summarization metrics! |
| Jun 03, 2025 | 🛎️ presented our ACL 2025 paper on discourse generalization at the CIS PhD seminar at LMU Munich |
| May 27, 2025 | 🏰 invited talk at the Computational Linguistics Colloquium of Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies |
| May 16, 2025 | 🛎️ 2 papers accepted to ACL 2025 (main) 🎶 See y’all in Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹 |
| May 08, 2025 | 🛎️ The First Workshop on Bridging NLP and Public Opinion Research (NLPOR) will be held at COLM 2025 in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦 on October 10 - submit by June 23! |
| Nov 15, 2024 | recognized as an outstanding reviewer at EMNLP 2024 🌴 |
| Sep 21, 2024 | 1 paper accepted to EMNLP 2024 (main) 🌴 Hope to see y’all in Miami, Florida 🇺🇸 |
| Sep 18, 2024 | eRST has been accepted to The Computational Linguistics journal and will be presented at EMNLP 2024 🌊 See y’all in Miami 🌴 |
| Sep 02, 2024 | moved to Munich 🇩🇪 and started my postdoc at MaiNLP at CIS, LMU Munich 🥨 |
| May 17, 2024 | officially hooded and graduated! |
| Apr 30, 2024 | starting Fall 2025, I will begin as an Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining Pitt, I will be a postdoctoral researcher at the MaiNLP research lab at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU Munich led by Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank. |
| Apr 09, 2024 | awarded a Spring 2024 GSAS-GradGov Research Project Award at Georgetown University! |
| Feb 23, 2024 | I passed my dissertation defense  |
| Dec 01, 2023 | invited talk (online) at Prof. Dr. Dirk Hovy’s MilaNLP Lab at Bocconi University 🇮🇹 |
| Sep 25, 2023 | Invited talk at Prof. Dr. Barbara Plank’s MaiNLP research lab at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU in Munich, Germany about The Pivotal Role of Genres: Insights from English RST Parsing and Abstractive Summarization 🕺🏻 |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Invited talk at Prof. Dr. Manfred Stede’s Applied CL Discourse Lab at Universität Potsdam about English RST Parsing in Potsdam, Germany 🇩🇪 |
| Jul 11, 2023 | One paper accepted to SIGDIAL 2023 🙌🏼 See you in Prague 🇨🇿 in September |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Area Chair of Discourse and Pragmatics at EMNLP 2023 🇸🇬 |
| May 30, 2023 | Started a Research Scientist internship at Spotify USA Inc. 🤠🕺🏻🎸🎧🥁 |
| May 17, 2023 | One paper accepted to INTERSPEECH 2023 in Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪 |
| May 02, 2023 | One paper accepted to the Findings of ACL 2023 See y’all in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 |
| Apr 22, 2023 | Invited talk at MASC-SLL 2023 at Georgetown Mason University (Arlington campus) 🤠 |
| Jan 21, 2023 | One paper accepted to the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023) 🕺🏻 See y’all in Dubrovnik, Croatia 🇭🇷 |
| Jan 11, 2023 | Co-organizing the DISRPT2023 Shared Task on Discourse Segmentation, Connective and Relation Identification across Formalisms in conjunction with ACL2023 and the CODI2023 Workshop 🤠 More languages and discourse treebanks available 🙌🏼 |
| Dec 14, 2022 | awarded a Fall 2023 GSAS Conference Travel Grant! |
| Dec 14, 2022 | Awarded a Fall 2022 GSAS Conference Travel Grant and a Fall 2022 GSAS-GradGov Research Project Award! |
| Sep 21, 2022 | One co-authored paper accepted at the 2nd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 12th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (AACL-IJCNLP) 👏🏼 |
| May 09, 2022 | One paper on Adpositional Pragmatic Markers accepted at the 16th Lingusitic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVI) Workshop, co-located with LREC 2022 in Marseille, France 🇫🇷 |
| Nov 05, 2021 | Passed my dissertation proposal defense ✌🏼 |
| Jun 07, 2021 | Started the Research Scientist, PhD - Summer Internship with the Lab in Language Technologies at Spotify Research 🎸🎧🥁 |
| May 11, 2021 | Passed the 2nd Qualifying Review ✌🏼 |
| Feb 18, 2021 | Co-organizing the DISRPT2021 Shared Task on Discourse Segmentation, Connective and Relation Identification across Formalisms in conjunction with EMNLP2021 and the CODI2021 Workshop 🤠 |
| Dec 16, 2020 | Done with PhD Coursework ✌🏼 |
| Jul 01, 2020 | A journal paper on detecting signals of discourse relations by Amir and I now published in Dialogue & Discourse 🕵🏻♀️ |
| May 18, 2020 | Started my first internship at Alexa AI @ Amazon as a Language Data Researcher Intern (VIRTUAL) 🔍 |
| May 17, 2019 | Happy Graduation 🎓 M.S. in Computational Linguistics, Georgetown University 🎉 |
| Apr 15, 2019 | Awarded a Spring 2019 GSAS Conference Travel Grant and a Spring 2019 GSAS-GradGov Research Project Award! |
| Jan 15, 2016 | A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!   |
| Nov 07, 2015 | A long announcement with details |
| Oct 22, 2015 | A simple inline announcement. |