Research Assistant – Yale University & Facebook AI Research

Company: Yale University & Facebook AI Research
Location: New Haven, CT
Duration: March 2021 – June 2022

• Language, Information, and Learning Lab at Yale. Worked with undergraduate students, graduate students, Facebook AI researchers, and Yale faculty professor.
• Contributed to two papers with a new dialogue dataset and novel contrastive fine-tuning method.
• Helped develop new taxonomy of model hallucinations and summarizations errors.
• Developed Python scripts to clean and annotate data for deep learning summarization models. Conducted human evaluation of model performance and achieved state-of-the-art results using taxonomy-based training strategy.