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Alyssa Hwang

PhD Student (Started Fall 2020)

Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania

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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

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