About me
Hello!! Iβm Shreya, a 4th year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania working with Penn NLP. I am advised by Lyle Ungar and Eric Wong. My research is supported by the NSF GRFP. Previously, I attended the University of Southern California (Fight On!!) where I received a B.S. in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics and worked with Morteza Dehghani at the Morality and Language Lab.
I specialize in cross-cultural NLP, focusing on quantifying and mitigating Anglocentric bias in modern LLMs. I am broadly interested in helping LLMs understand subjective constructs that vary across people and cultures, such as linguistic style (e.g. emotion, politeness), implied language, and social norms.
I am currently working on: (1) Improving and benchmarking the cultural awareness of LLMs, (2) Aligning LLM evaluation with domain-expert intuition, and (3) My thesis!
Outside of academia, I like to cook, run, and ask strangers if I can pet their dogs. Please reach out if you want to chat about my research, the GRFP, or the PhD application process!
Recent News!!
- [July 2025] π Iβll be attending ACL in Vienna to present our papers Style Alignment in Cross-Cultural Translation and Incorporating Implication into NLI
- [July 2025] π Iβll be attending IC2S2 in NorrkΓΆping to talk about Cultural Knowledge Injection and Benchmarking Conversational Ability of LLMs
- [June 2025] π Our paper - The FIX Benchmark: Extracting Features Interpretable to eXperts was accepted to DMLR
- [June 2025] π Excited to intern at Spotify Research this summer, working on podcast understanding and evaluation!
- [May 2025] π New preprints - Probabilistic Soundness Guarantees in LLM Reasoning Chains and Adaptively Profiling Models with Task Elicitation
- [March 2024] π Our paper - Building Knowledge-Guided Lexica to Model Cultural Variation was selected for an oral at NAACL!
- [Feb 2024] π Excited to intern at Google Deepmind this summer, working on social understanding in LLMs!
- [Dec 2023] π Iβll be attending EMNLP in Singapore and NeurIPS in New Orleans! Come say hi and chat about Explainable Comparison of Politeness across Languages
- [Sep 2023] π Our paper - Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning - won the Area Chair Award (Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP) at AACL!
- [Aug 2023] π New preprint - Human-Centered Metrics for Dialog System Evaluation
- [Jul 2023] π I am attending IC2S2 in Copenhagen to talk about Measuring Regional Variation in Culture Through Embedding-Based Lexica
- [May 2023] π Our paper - Multilingual Language Models are not Multicultural: A Case Study in Emotion - won best paper at ACLβs Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis!
- [Mar 2023] π I am honored to recieve the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!