CV

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Education

• Ph.D in Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, 2022
• M.S. in Computer Science, University of California San Diego, 2019
• B.S. in Computer Engineering, San Diego State University, 2014

Work experience

• Postdoctoral Researcher
  • University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen)
  • My current projects are two-fold: developing more resources and methods for analyzing science communication, and developing methods for sustainable machine learning.
• October 2019 to present: PhD Student
  • University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen)
  • Research on natural langauge processing and machine learning: fact checking, scholarly document processing, and domain adaptation
  • Supervisor: Isabelle Augenstein
• June 2021 - September 2021: Research Intern
  • Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence, Semantic Scholar (Remote)
  • Research project on generating scientific claims for scientific fact checking
  • Advisor: Lucy Lu Wang
• June 2019 - September 2019: Research Intern
  • IBM Research Almaden (San Jose, CA)
  • Research on active learning for biomedical information extraction
  • Supervisors: Kristen L. Beck and Anna Lisa Gentile
• January 2018 - June 2019: Graduate Research Assistant
  • UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation (San Diego, CA)
  • Created state of the art disease name normalization model
  • Advisor: Chun-nan Hsu
• October 2017 - December 2017: Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • UC San Diego (San Diego, CA)
  • Teaching assistant for Lawrence K. Saul’s course Principles of Artificial Intelligence: Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision-Making
• March 2015 - October 2017: Software Engineer II
  • BAE Systems Inc. (San Diego, CA)
  • Front-end web developer

Grants and Honors

• Honorable mention (top 0.6% submission), International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) 2023
• Danish Data Science Academy Postdoc Fellowship, 2023
• Marie Sklodowska-Curie PhD fellowship, 2019
• Best application paper, AKBC 2019

Publications

For a list of my publications see either here or my scholar page

Invited Talks

• “Modeling Information Change in Science Communication with Semantically Matched Paraphrases” (20/07/2023, International Conference of Computational Social Science (IC2S2), Honorable mention (top 0.6% submission))
• “Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP” (02/06/2023, University of Cambridge)
• “Automatically Ensuring Information Quality in Scientific Writing” (15/03/2022, Elsevier)
• “Semi-Supervised Exaggeration Detection in Science” (28/01/2022, University of Amsterdam)
• “Cite-Worthiness Detection for Improved Scientific Document Understanding” (1/3/2021, ETH Zürich)
• “NormCo: Deep Disease Normalization for Biomedical Knowledge Base Construction” (10/07/2019, IBM Research)

Service

• Area Chair, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2023
• Program Committee, BioNLP Workshop (ACL) 2023
• Program Committee, ACL 2022
• Publication Chair, Conference for Truth and Trust Online 2021
• Program Committee, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2021

Press

• Exaggeration Detector Could Lead to More Accurate Health Science Journalism (NVIDIA blog)
• An NLP Approach to Exaggeration Detection in Science Journalism (unite.ai)

Supervision

• Compression Methods for Efficient Vision Transformers. Bachelor’s project advisor, UCPH, Feb 2023, Olga Henrietta Ptacek
• Uncertainty and Exaggerations of Scientific Findings in Social Media. Master’s project advisor, UCPH, June 2022, Jimmie Jin, Asger Thorleif Knudsen, Sylvester Leonhard Gorm Errebo Lee
• Stance Detection of Attitudes Toward Climate Change on Social Media. Bachelor’s project advisor, UCPH, June 2020, Jimmie Jin, Asger Thorleif Knudsen, Sylvester Leonhard Gorm Errebo Lee

Teaching

• Fall 2021: Teaching Assistant - Natural Language Processing
  • University of Copenhagen
  • TA for NLP course at KU; Duties involved running lab sessions, designing the course project, and marking papers
• Fall 2020: Teaching Assistant - Natural Language Processing
  • University of Copenhagen
  • TA for NLP course at KU; Duties involved running lab sessions, designing the course project, and marking papers
• Spring 2020: Teaching Assistant - Web Science
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Teaching assistant for web science course at University of Copenhagen. Duties involved designing the course project, moderating lab sessions, and grading the course project
• Fall 2017: Teaching Assistant - Principles of Artificial Intelligence: Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision-Making
  • UC San Diego
  • Teaching assistant for CSE 250A. Duties involved maintaining regular office hours and grading assignments.