Brihi Joshi

I am a second-year CS PhD student at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Xiang Ren as a part of the NLP Group and INK Research Lab. My research interests lie in developing explainable and label-efficient methods for diverse NLP tasks, using insights from human communication. Find more details about it in the research tab!
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 in December, 2020, where I completed my thesis as a part (and founding member) of the Laboratory for Computational Social Systems (LCS2).
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 is 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, which is an online NLP seminar for and by students. I am a huge advocate of diversity in CS Research, and always looking for opportunities to support them! I am also a musician by passion and absolutely love singing and composing music. I’ve tried my hands at 3 instruments (and I plan to master some, explore more). Head over to the outreach tab for more details!
news
May 2023 | Started as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa 🎉 Excited to explore the greater Boston area and work with the NLG Team! |
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May 2023 | XMD got accepted to ACL Demo Track 2023! 🎉 |
May 2023 | Our human utility project got accepted to ACL (Main Conference) 2023! See you in Toronto! 🎉🍾 |
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, 🔪 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! |
Oct 2022 | Our proposal with Aaron and Xiang, on Utilizing Explanations for Model Refinement got the Alexa: Fairness in AI award! |
Aug 2022 | New demo paper XMD out! |
May 2022 | Our workshop Broadening Research Collaborations in ML was accepted at NeurIPS 2022! |
May 2022 | Full version of ER-Test: Evaluating Explanation Regularization Methods for NLP Models is out! Super excited to share my first work as a PhD student! 😩 |
May 2022 | ER-Test is accepted to the TrustNLP workshop @ NAACL 2022! Excited to present this at Seattle! |
Oct 2021 | Received the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) student project award for my undergraduate thesis! |
Aug 2021 | Started my PhD at USC! Very fortunate to be advised by Prof. Xiang Ren! |