I am an assistant professor in Computer Science (Courant Institute) and Data Science at New York University. I was an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Austin from 2020. Before UT, I was a researcher at Google AI in NYC and a Ph.D. student at UW, advised by Luke Zettlemoyer and Yejin Choi.

I enjoy studying real world language usages with simple and generalizable models. I also build benchmarks that allows us to evaluate NLP models, conduct model analysis, and bring the progresses in English NLP to a wider range of languages. Here are research topics that I am currently interested in:

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I am fortunate to work with many talented students and collaborators. I don't have a group name, but my students like to play with naming my lab, such as (E)xplaining and (U)nderstanding (N)ature and (S)tructure/Synthesis (O)f (L)anguage. If you would like to join my lab, please apply to NYU CS or DS program as I will be recruiting 1-2 student this cycle. I currently do not offer new internship or undergraduate research opportunities. I typically do not answer individual inquiries on research opportunities or admissions. If you like to work with me, apply to NYU's Ph.D program and mention my name in the application.

The research at my lab has been supported by Google, Open Philanthrophy, CISCO, Sony, HomeDepot, Apple and NSF. Thank you!

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My name (은솔) means soft, persistent love in ancient Korean (or at least my father claims so). I use she/her pronoun. Here is my voice clips to help you pronounce my names: Korean version: [] Easier version: []
I am fortunate to embark my NLP journey at Cornell as an undergraduate with Lillian Lee.