Third-person Bio
Shirley A. Hayati is a PhD student in computer science at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
She received her MS in language technologies from Carnegie Mellon University and BS in computer science from Universitas Indonesia. Her research interests include human-centered natural language processing, especially stylistic studies, explainable NLP, and computational social science.
She has served as reviewer for multiple ACL conferences, actively promotes diversity in tech by participating in CMU Women@SCS, Grace Hopper celebration, and served as a diversity & inclusion chair for NAACL 2022. Her current work is about human-centered NLP.
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
Teaching Assistant at UMN for Natural Language Processing (2023), working with Prof. Dongyeop Kang
Teaching Assistant at CMU for Natural Language Processing (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)
- Research Intern at Meta/Facebook AI Research (Summer 2022)
- Worked on computational social science problem of understanding consequences of conflicts in Facebook groups (published at ICWSM 2024)
- 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
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
- 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
Reviewer for
Machine Learning Instructor at
Bangkit (career readiness courses initiated by Google, and Indonesian tech companies) 2023
Volunteer Scholarship for EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, ACL 2021
ACL Member (2016 - Present)
Leader for SALT Lab's NLP for Mental Health Group 2022
Volunteer for CSE PhD Student Visit at UMN 2023
Diversity and Inclusion