Brihi Joshi

I am a 4th year CS PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California, advised by professors Xiang Ren and Swabha Swayamdipta as a part of the NLP Group, INK Lab and Dill Lab. I am also interning part-time at Apple, with Tim Paek and Rik Koncel-Kedziorski.

Broadly, my research interests lie around asking: How can AI systems improve users’ knowledge acquisition? Traditionally, AI has been designed to assist humans in achieving well-defined objectives (e.g. code debugging). However, as AI gets better on these well-defined tasks, it is essential to explore how these systems can serve as partners in knowledge acquisition β€” helping humans think, learn, and explore ideas more effectively. To this end, I look at modelling and evaluating AI utility for such knowledge acquisition tasks. My research is supported by the USC Annenberg, 2023 Amazon ML and 2024 Apple Scholars in AI/ML Fellowships.

Prior to this, I was an Analyst at Goldman Sachs where I worked with the Regulatory Engineering team. Even before that, I graduated with a Bachelors in Computer Science from IIIT Delhi where I did research with Laboratory for Computational Social Systems (LCS2), Snap Research and IBM Research India.

Apart from pursuing my academic interests, I am extremely passionate about serving the community. I used to co-lead the Delhi chapter of Women Who Code Delhi, which was an organisation that works towards diversity and inclusion of women in tech, for more than 5 years. Currently, I am one of the organizers of the NLP with Friends. I am a huge advocate of diversity in CS Research and general mentoring, and always looking for opportunities to support them. Head over to the outreach & mentorship tab for more details. I am also a musician by passion and absolutely love singing and composing music. I’ve tried my hands at multiple instruments (and I plan to master some, explore more).

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Sep 2024 OATH-Frames won an Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024!! πŸŽ‰
Sep 2024 OATH-Frames led by Jaspreet (and also my first truly interdisciplinary work) got accepted to EMNLP 2024 Main! πŸ‘πŸΌ
May 2024 Started as an ML Research Intern at Apple in Seattle! Super excited to work on interesting problems in Humans x LLMs πŸ™ŒπŸ½
Mar 2024 Awarded the 2024 Apple Scholars in AI/ML PhD fellowship! πŸ₯Ί
Jan 2024 MaRio accepted at ICLR 2024! See you in Vienna!! πŸ™ŒπŸ½
Nov 2023 Excited to share our new work led by Sahana, on improving the quality of rationales generated by small LMs!
Oct 2023 Passed my PhD Quals! Officialy a PhD Candidate now :D
Oct 2023 Gave a talk at the USC-Amazon Centre on Trusted AI about Human-Centred Operationalization of Model Explanations!
Jul 2023 Honoured to be awarded the Amazon ML PhD Fellowship for 2023-24! πŸ₯Ί
May 2023 Started as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa πŸŽ‰ Excited to explore the greater Boston area and work with the NLG Team!
May 2023 XMD got accepted to ACL Demo Track 2023! πŸŽ‰
May 2023 Our human utility project got accepted to ACL (Main Conference) 2023! See you in Toronto! πŸŽ‰πŸΎ
Dec 2022 Excited to share a new preprint on measuring human utility of free-text rationales, that I co-led with Ziyi!
Dec 2022 New preprint, πŸ”ͺ KNIFE, on learning from free-text rationales is out! Happy to have collaborated with Aaron and Zhiyuan who led the work!
Oct 2022 ER-Test is now accepted at EMNLP 2022 as a Findings Paper! I will be presenting it at the BlackboxNLP workshop on 12/08!
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