I enjoy the operational side of academic life: bringing people together, designing programs, and building interdisciplinary communities.
Co-organized the first in-person workshop of the FLaNN community, turning a long-running online seminar series into a three-day interdisciplinary event. I worked on the program, invited speakers, participant communication and support, funding, and on-site logistics.
Workshop websiteCo-organized Dagstuhl Seminar 25282 with Pablo Barceló, David Chiang, and George Cybenko. The week brought together researchers from formal languages, computational complexity, logic, natural language processing, and machine learning to discuss open problems in the theory of neural language models.
Seminar websiteCo-organized and developed a five-day ESSLLI course with David Chiang, Jon Rawski, and Andy J Yang. The course connected transformer expressivity with automata, Boolean circuits, formal logic, computability, and complexity theory for an interdisciplinary audience.
Course pageHosted and organized the recurring Formal Languages and Neural Networks seminar series, connecting researchers working across formal language theory, neural networks, and NLP through talks and discussion.
Co-organized a research trip for researchers in the WARA community, including academic and industry visits in Tokyo.
Co-developed and presented an ACL tutorial on understanding the abilities and limitations of neural language models.
Tutorial abstractServed on the local organizing committee for the colocated 27th International Conference on Developments in Language Theory and 14th International Conference on Combinatorics on Words.
Conference website