This is Ashima, a Research Associate at UCLA advised by Prof. Nanyun Peng and Prof. Saadia Gabriel. I completed my MS from the department of Computer Science as a Deepmind Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. I also collaborate with Prof. Kai-Wei Chang at UCLA NLP.

My research is centered around preference acquisition for LLM alignment, evaluation of LLMs, and hate speech detection. Additionally, I have also worked on bias evaluation and dicourse understanding.

In the past, I have spent some amazing time interning at Walmart Labs (Summer 2022), University of New Brunswick as a Mitacs Scholar (Summer 2019) and IBM Research India (2018).

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News

🍄 April 2024 New Preprint out on Evaluating Phonological Skills of LLMs.

🍄 April 2024 New Preprint out on Surveying Bias in T2I Models.

🍄 April 2024 New Preprint out on Joint Instruction-Response Preferences for LLM Alignment.

🍄 March 2024 New Preprint out on Zero-Shot Event Detection.

🍄 November 2023: Meet me at Socal NLP 2023 where I present my work with Questions Under Discussion

🍄 September 2023: I joined PLUS Lab as a Research Associate advised by Prof. Nanyun Peng at UCLA.

🍄 July 2023: Meet me at ACL 2023 (Toronto, Canada) – my first in-person conference!

Service

• Programme Committee / Reviewer: ACL-SRW 2023, NAACL-SRW 2023, ICLR Tiny Papers 2023
  

• Rewards Committee: SoCal NLP Symposium 2023