Shreya Havaldar

Shreya Havaldar

shreyah at seas.upenn.edu

About me

Hello!! I’m Shreya, a fourth year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, where I currently work with Penn NLP and the World Well Being Project. I am advised by Lyle Ungar and Eric Wong. My research is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Previously, I attended the University of Southern California (Fight On!!) where I received a B.S. in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. During my time at USC, I worked with Morteza Dehghani at the Morality and Language Lab (formerly the Computational Social Science 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) Quantifying how translation fails to preserve components of linguistic style, (2) Subjectivity in implication understanding, and (3) Benchmarking cultural awareness in LLMs.

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 NSF GRFP, or the PhD application process!

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