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-AI collaboration, 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

Work Experience

Teaching and Mentoring

Teaching

Mentoring

Mentees:

• Su Yeon Han (BS CS, UMN)
• Jingcheng Liang (BS CS, UMN)
• Khanh Chi Le (PhD CS, UMN) 📄
• Patricia Anugrah Setiani (MS CS, UMN) 📄 📄
• Ruizi Wang (MS Robotics, UMN) 📄 📄 📄
• Ritik Sachin Parkar (MS Robotics, UMN → Thomson Reuters)
• Jong Inn Park (MS Data Science, UMN)
• Minhwa Lee (Visiting scholar, UMN → Mayo Clinic) 📄
• Ruixin "Ray" Yang (BS CS, UBC → MS CS, Georgia Tech) 📄
• Raj Shah (MS CS, Georgia Tech → PhD, Georgia Tech) 📄
• Faye Holt (BS CS, Georgia Tech → MS, Georgia Tech) 📄
• Yang He (MS CS, UMN → Google)
• Miguel Miguélez Díaz (MS CS, UMN → Amazon)
• Kyumin Park (MS CS, KAIST) 📄
• Yoo Li (MS CS, UC Davis → PhD, Columbia University) 📄

Talks

• Panelist at CSCI 8001 (Introduction to Research in Computer Science) for 1st-year PhD students at UMN · Fall 2026
• Guest lecture on "Human-AI Collaboration" at NLP course at UMN · Fall 2025
• Invited Speaker at Google Developers Group DevFestMN 2024 · December 2024
• Guest lecture on "Ethics and Explainability" at NLP course at UMN · Fall 2024
• GroupLens at UMN: How Far Can We Extract Diverse Perspectives from Large Language Models? · February 2024
• Guest lecture on "Ethics in AI" at NLP course at UMN · Fall 2023
• University of Notre Dame NLP Lunch Seminar · 2023
• Naver-Minnesota NLP Mixup - Student Research Showcase: Lexical Explanations for Styles · December 2022
• Jakarta Machine Learning & Google Developers Space: Human-Centered NLP: From Understanding and Generation to Explanation · April 2022
• University of Minnesota NLP Seminar: Understanding Styles in NLP · October 2021
• Lab Visit with Conversational AI and Social Analytics (CAISA) Lab, Philipps Universität Marburg in Germany · October 2021

Awards

• Conference Travel Grant of $900, UMN Council of Graduate Students · 2026
• Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, University of Minnesota · 2026 – 2027
• Midwest Speech and Language Days Travel Grant · 2024
• Computing Research Association - Widening Participation Grad Cohort for Women, San Francisco · 2023
• Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship, Georgia Institute of Technology · 2021
• Full funding for tuition and stipend for graduate studies at CMU, Georgia Tech, and University of Minnesota
• Cum Laude, Highest GPA in the University, Universitas Indonesia · 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

Area Chair

Workshop Organizing

Reviewing

Community and Volunteering

Diversity and Inclusion