About me

Hello!! I’m Shreya, a 5th 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 USC (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’ve also interned at Google Deepmind and Spotify Research.

I research sociotechnical alignment of LLMs, focusing on quantifying and mitigating cultural bias. 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) Techniques to improve cultural awareness of LLM generations, (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!!

• [November 2025] 🌎 Attending EMNLP in Suzhou to chat about a new benchmark for culturally-aware agents in the HCI + NLP workshop
• [October 2025] 🎉 Named one of MIT’s Rising Stars in EECS
• [July 2025] 🌎 I’ll be attending ACL in Vienna to present our papers Style Alignment in Cross-Cultural Translation and Incorporating Implication into NLI
• [July 2025] 🌎 I’ll be attending IC2S2 in Norrköping to talk about Cultural Knowledge Injection and Benchmarking Conversational Ability of LLMs
• [June 2025] 📝 Our paper - The FIX Benchmark: Extracting Features Interpretable to eXperts was accepted to DMLR
• [June 2025] 📚 Excited to intern at Spotify Research this summer, working on podcast understanding and evaluation!
• [May 2025] 📝 New preprints - Probabilistic Soundness Guarantees in LLM Reasoning Chains and Adaptively Profiling Models with Task Elicitation
• [March 2024] 🎉 Our paper - Building Knowledge-Guided Lexica to Model Cultural Variation was selected for an oral at NAACL!
• [Feb 2024] 📚 Excited to intern at Google Deepmind this summer, working on social understanding in LLMs!
• [Dec 2023] 🌎 I’ll be attending EMNLP in Singapore and NeurIPS in New Orleans! Come say hi and chat about Explainable Comparison of Politeness across Languages
• [Sep 2023] 🎉 Our paper - Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning - won the Area Chair Award (Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP) at AACL!
• [Aug 2023] 📝 New preprint - Human-Centered Metrics for Dialog System Evaluation
• [Jul 2023] 🌎 I am attending IC2S2 in Copenhagen to talk about Measuring Regional Variation in Culture Through Embedding-Based Lexica
• [May 2023] 🎉 Our paper - Multilingual Language Models are not Multicultural: A Case Study in Emotion - won best paper at ACL’s Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis!
• [Mar 2023] 🎉 I am honored to recieve the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!