Third-person Bio
Shirley A. Hayati is a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Minnesota.
She received her MS in language technologies from Carnegie Mellon University and BS in computer science from Universitas Indonesia.
Her research interests lie in the field of human-centered natural language processing, including diversity extraction and alignment, stylistic analyses, explainable NLP, human-LLM collaboration, data annotation, and computational social science.
She has served as an organizer at EMNLP workshop on Customizable NLP, a diversity & inclusion chair for NAACL 2022, and a reviewer for multiple ACL conferences.
She actively promotes diversity in tech by volunteering and participating in CMU Women@SCS and Grace Hopper celebration.
Education
PhD (expected graduation: 2025) - Computer Science,
College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Graduate Research Assistant
(2022 - Transfer to UMN) -
School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Research Assistant
Fellowship for full tuition and stipend, part of
NSF AI Caring
Masters -
Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Graduate Research Assistant
Bachelor (best graduate) -
Fakultas Ilmu Komputer, Universitas Indonesia
Research Assistant at the Information Retrieval Lab
Teaching and Mentoring
Mentored masters and undergraduate students from the University of Minnesota, University of British Columbia, Georgia Tech, and KAIST (2021 - Present)
- Published papers in CSCW 2022, EACL 2023, ICLR 2024 Workshop, EMNLP 2024
Graduate Teaching Assistant at UMN for Natural Language Processing (Fall 2023, Fall 2024), working with Prof. Dongyeop Kang
Graduate Teaching Assistant at CMU for Natural Language Processing (Fall 2017), working with Prof. Alan Black and David Mortensen
Teaching Assistant at Universitas Indonesia (2013-2017) for:
- Natural Language Processing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Declarative Programming
- Calculus
- Linear Algebra
Work Experience
- Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa AI (Summer 2023) and AGI (Summer 2024) @Bellevue, WA
- Worked on instruction-tuning for compostional instructions (published at AAAI 2025)
- Worked on developing alignment method with instruction-tuning and RLHF for modeling diverse opinions by people from various demographic backgrounds on LLMs
- Mentors: Taehee Jung, Joo-kyung Kim, Tristan Bodding-Long
- Research Intern at Meta/Facebook AI Research (Summer 2022) @Menlo Park, CA
- Worked on computational social science problem of understanding consequences of conflicts in Facebook groups (published at ICWSM 2024)
- Mentors: Yi-Chia Wang, Kristen M. Altenburger, Robert E. Kraut, Jane Yu
- Research Specialist at the University of Pennsylvania (2020 - 2021)
- Two publications about explainable styles at EMNLP 2021 (main conference) and EACL 2023 (main conference)
- Research Assistant at the University of California, Davis (2019 - 2020)
- Published and presented a long paper about sociable recommendation dialogue systems at EMNLP 2020 (main conference)
- Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at Universitas Indonesia (2013 - 2017)
- Published 2 papers in a computational linguistics journal and a conference
Talks
Awards
- Midwest Speech and Language Days 2024 Travel Grant
- Full funding for tuition and stipend for graduate studies at CMU, Georgia Tech, and University of Minnesota
- Computing Research Association - Widening Participation Grad Cohort for Women, San Francisco (2023)
- Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship, Georgia Institute of Technology (2021)
- Summa Cum Laude, Graduating with Highest GPA, Universitas Indonesia (February 2016)
- Top 10 Finalist for Data Mining Competition for College Students, Indonesia (Gemastik 2015)
- Silver medalist for UX Design National Competition for College Students, Indonesia (Gemastik 2014)
Service
Professional
ACL 2025 Area Chair
EMNLP 2024
CustomNLP4U Workshop Co-organizer
ACL Rolling Review Communication Team Volunteer (2024 - Present)
Reviewer for
Student Host for CSE Faculty Candidate Visit and Cray Distinguished Speaker Series at UMN 2024
Machine Learning Instructor at
Bangkit (career readiness courses initiated by Google, and Indonesian tech companies) 2023
Volunteer for CSE PhD Student Visit at UMN 2023
Leader for SALT Lab's NLP for Mental Health Group 2022
Volunteer Scholarship for EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, ACL 2021
ACL Member (2016 - Present)
Diversity and Inclusion