Hi, I’m Dan! Here is some information about me:

• I am a first-year Dual Degree Ph.D. Student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute and at Instituto Superior Técnico’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
• I am very fortunate to be co-advised by Professors Maarten Sap and Chrysoula Zerva.
• I speak English and Russian fluently. I am also conversational in Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, and Turkish.
• Here is a link to my curriculum vitae.

Interests

I am broadly interested in natural language processing, human-computer interaction, and computational social justice.

I am especially interested in how we can use decolonial computing techniques as part of algorithmic audits and qualitative analyses to expose and combat the systematic and systemic social biases prevalent in language models.

Highlights

• (Aug. 2024) I moved to Pittsburgh to begin my PhD!

Prior Experience

I was recently a research assistant for Nikola Banovic and Nel Escher in the Computational HCI Lab at the University of Michigan. I was also formerly a SULI Intern at Argonne National Laboratory and a DSI Summer Lab RA at the University of Chicago Data Science Institute.

Contact Me

Please feel free to contact me! My email address is linked on the sidebar, but here is another link for good measure.