Vasudha Varadarajan

Vasudha Varadarajan

PhD student at Stony Brook University

Hey there!

I am Vasudha Varadarajan, a fourth year PhD student working in the areas of natural language processing and the relationships between cognition and language, especially in the context of social media. I work with Prof. H. Andrew Schwartz in the State University of New York at Stony Brook. I am interested in applying NLP/data science techniques to problems in computational social science to study social/psychological phenomena through language use at scale, active learning, and improving conversational AI for psychometric surveys. I am also interested in interpretability and explainability of language models, and exploring NLP for low-resource and code-mixed settings.

I am always looking for opportunities (currently internships) to work with teams with similar interests– preferably with a research component. Other than that, I have been trying to improve my science communication skills, and I love facilitating discussions and teaching!

Updates

  • July 2023: Won an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023 for the paper “Transfer and Active Learning for Dissonance Detection: Addressing the Rare Class Challenge”. Check out the paper here!
  • July 2023: Heading to ACL 2023, Toronto for a poster presentation for “Transfer and Active Learning for Dissonance Detection: Addressing the Rare Class Challenge”.
  • May 2023: Two papers accepted into ACL (Main)!
  • September 2022: Visiting Lund University for a semester as a guest researcher.
  • May 2022: Heading to Bellevue, WA for Applied Scientist internship with Microsoft!
  • May 2022: Selected as a DARPA Forward Riser for my work on identifying cognitive dissonance from social media language.
  • May 2021: Remote research internship at AT&T!
  • January 2021: Started my PhD program at Stony Brook University, New York.