:mortar_board: I successfully defended my PhD dissertation, Towards Emotionally-Intelligent AI Systems, today!

The best thing was having an advisor who believed in me before I believed in myself. Jessy taught me how to write, how to think, and how to chase research ideas. Then the rest followed.

Grateful to my committee: Desmond C. Ong, David I. Beaver, and Kyle Mahowald, for pushing my work in directions I couldn’t see on my own. Many, many thanks to my labmates, friends, and family.

Here are my slides.

With advisor Junyi Jessy Li at the Department of Linguistics
Post-defense celebration
With committee members after the defense
Hook 'em Horns with committee members