About Me
I am a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University. I am affiliated with the Center for Language and Speech Processing and advised by professor Mark Dredze.
I create fairer and socially aware NLP & ML models. My current research focuses on measuring and then improving the fairness of such models, and adapting them across various domains. In addition to analyzing LLMs for fairness, I have developed a variety of methods to improve fairness, including a custom loss for use in finetuning. I have a strong background in developing models in data-limited settings, including mental healthcare. I have also pre-trained encoder-only transformers for Twitter, Bernice.
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Johns Hopkins University
Fall 2019 - present
PhD student affiliated with CLSP working with Mark Dredze.
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Johns Hopkins University
Fall 2019 - Fall 2020
M.S.E in Computer Science.
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Kansas State University
2016 - 2019
My alma mater, K-State, where I received Bachelor's in Computer Science. I was an undergraduate research assistant in the KSU KDD Lab with professor William Hsu.
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Metropolitan Community College - Penn Valley
2014 - 2016
MCC Penn Valley is where I received my Associate's degree.
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East High School
2013 - 2016
Kansas City East was my dear high school. Go East or Go Home!
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I Moved to the United States!
January 31st, 2013
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Colegio Salesiano Santa Cecilia
2004-2013
Best school in El Salvador (unbiased opinion). Chaleco de corazon!