I am an associate professor in Computer Science (Courant Institute) and Data Science at New York University. I study large language models (LLMs), focusing on enabling models to help people access information effectively. I enjoy studying real-world language usages and understanding how LLMs work. Previously, I was an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at the University of Texas at Austin, a researcher at Google AI in NYC and a Ph.D. student at UW, advised by Luke Zettlemoyer and Yejin Choi.

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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'd like to work with me, apply to NYU's Ph.D. program (computer science or data science) and mention my name in the application. I am looking for 1-2 students in the upcoming cycle (starting Fall 2027).

The research at my lab has been supported by Google, Open Philanthropy, 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.