Shirley Anugrah Hayati

Shirley Anugrah Hayati (she/her)

Contact: hayat023@umn.edu

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About

Hi! πŸ€— I'm a computer science PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota, working with Dongyeop Kang.

My research interest is in human-centered NLP. I aim to combine NLP with human-computer interaction and computational social science. Specifically, I am interested in:

  • understanding human behavior through NLP methods
  • exploring the field of stylistic analysis
  • designing fair and interpretable NLP
  • connecting psychology and cultural study with NLP for social good

I received my master's degree in language technologies from the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and my bachelor's degree in computer science from Universitas Indonesia. During my PhD studies, I have also been fortunate to do research internships at Meta AI, Amazon Alexa AI and AGI, and Microsoft AI.

Updates

10.2026

Soft-launching a new mentorship program! Check out this page for more details 😊

09.2026

A new preprint about Deep Research for supporting interdisciplinary researchers is out! πŸ₯³

01.2026

Grateful to receive the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for supporting my research 😊

Selected Publications

How Far Can We Extract Diverse Perspectives from Large Language Models?

Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Minhwa Lee, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Dongyeop Kang
EMNLP 2024 Main Conference

StyLEx: Explaining Style Using Human Lexical Annotations

Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Kyumin Park, Dheeraj Rajagopal, Lyle Ungar, Dongyeop Kang
EACL 2023 Main Conference

Miscellaneous

I grew up in Tangerang Selatan, Indonesia. My hobbies are writing stories, reading novels, drawing characters, making comics, learning new languages, and especially traveling. I also enjoy photography and video editing.

I've lived in four different regions in the US: East, West, South, and Midwest!

πŸ‚ Pittsburgh

Two years in Pittsburgh made me fall in love with vermillion leaves in fall and a snowy winter wonderland ❄️ (winter without snow is no fun!).

🌻 California

California keeps me excited in spring 🌹 and summer.

🌳 Atlanta

How about Atlanta? You should try hiking with the trees and waterfalls!

πŸ’¦ Minneapolis

For Minneapolis, water is a big plus ❀ And let's do snow activities here! β˜ƒοΈβ›Έβ›·πŸ‚

⛰️ Bellevue

Summer in Bellevue = outdoor time! 🌲 Let's go paddle-boarding πŸ„, watch the sunset πŸŒ…, and hike at the three National Parks πŸ”οΈ

If you want to talk about computer science, research in human-centered NLP, or grad school, feel free to reach out to me! 😁
I like naming projects or characters, so if you want name ideas, ping me as well and I'll be happy to suggest one! πŸ˜‰