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 was fortunate to do research internships at Meta AI, Amazon Alexa AI and AGI, and Microsoft AI.

Updates

10.2026

Our work (Kolab) about benchmarking MLLMs for human-agent collaboration in long horizon workflows is on arXiv now! πŸ˜‰

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

KOLAB: Benchmarking Human-Agent Collaboration in Long-Horizon Workflows

Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Patricia Anugrah Setiani, Ruizi Wang, Zhouyi Li, Khanh Chi Le, Young-Jun Lee, Dongyeop Kang
arXiv preprint 2026

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˜‰