Welcome!
I am a first-year PhD student in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. I am particularly interested in the intersections of Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, and Psychology, especially expanding NLU resources for nonstandard English. I am supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
I earned my BS in Computer Science at Columbia University, where I conducted research and wrote an undergraduate thesis with Prof. Kathleen McKeown.
alyssahwang at seas dot upenn dot edu
Recent Publications
Professional and Teaching Experience
Software Engineering Intern
Build hierarchical RNN + CRF model for dialogue act recognition using Tensorflow and BERT embeddings.
Teaching Assistant
COMS 4705 Natural Language Processing at Columbia University
Grade homework assignments, host weekly office hours, and adapt course for online learning during COVID-19 pandemic (taught by Michael Collins).
Teaching Assistant
COMS 4705 Natural Language Processing at Columbia University
Prepare homework assignments, grade exams and homework, manage participation credit, and host weekly office hours for class of 120 undergraduate and graduate students (taught by Kathleen McKeown).
Software Engineering Intern
Expand image results for events displayed on Search from one directly pulled from the markup to multiple queried from an external API.
Teaching Assistant
COMS 4705 Natural Language Processing at Columbia University
Grade homework and exams, update skeleton code from Python2 to Python3, host weekly office hours for class of 154 undergraduate and graduate students.
Teaching Assistant
Intro to Java and Web Dev. in Python at the Columbia University Summer Immersion Program
Design curriculum for introductory Java and Python for 20 high school students and teach “Git Better” workshop for advanced Git skills.