Alyssa Hwang
PhD Student (Started Fall 2020)
Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvaniashe/her/hers 🔈
Welcome!
I am a fifth-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 how existing documents can be infused with additional information to make them easier to understand. For example, I have recently focused on how written recipes can be restructured for voice guidance.
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
Recent News
- Oct 21, 2024: New collaborations, publications, and pre-prints! RAID: A Shared Benchmark for Robust Evaluation of Machine-Generated Text Detectors (ACL 2024), FanOutQA: A Multi-Hop, Multi-Document Question Answering Benchmark for Large Language Models (ACL 2024), JumpStarter: Getting Started on Personal Goals with AI-Powered Context Curation (in submission), and NewsQs: Multi-Source Question Generation for the Inquiring Mind (AWS 2022 internship paper).
- Mar 1, 2024: I'm on the cover of Kent Place Magazine. 😅 Go dragons!
- Feb 5, 2024: Looking forward to speaking at Women in Data Science @ Penn, Google, and Columbia in the next couple of months.
- Dec 1, 2023: I will be in Singapore for EMNLP next week. Looking forward to meeting new people and presenting Kani at the open-source software workshop on Dec. 6 and attending the Salesforce networking dinner on Dec. 8!
- Nov 16, 2023: My work on GPT-Vision has been featured by TechCrunch, Associated Press, Penn Today, and several other news outlets.