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Alyssa Hwang

PhD Candidate (Started Fall 2020)

Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania

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Welcome!

I am a final-year PhD student (😱😱😱) in the Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Pennsylvania, where I am advised by Andrew Head. I study user interfaces for fine-grained integration of information. In other words, I am interested in how we can use generative AI to augment information-heavy documents at the scale of phrases or image segments.

I am on the job market!

I am interested in roles related to research, UX/UI, product design, software engineering, or consulting. Feel free to look through my CV or send me an email if you would like to chat.

More about me

Beyond research, I am "chair emerita" of the CIS Doctoral Association and the founder of our department's Mentorship Program. I also care a lot about outreach programs, like the Diversity and Equity Initiative in the Mind Sciences (DivE In Weekend). I have interned at Google and AWS, and my work has been featured by Tech Crunch, the Associated Press, and over 100 other US news outlets.

My first three years were supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. I received an MS in Computer and Information Studies from Penn while working on my PhD. I also hold a BS in Computer Science from Columbia University, where I conducted research at the Natural Language Text Processing Lab and wrote an undergraduate thesis with Professor Kathleen McKeown.

ahwang16 at seas dot upenn dot edu

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