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I’m a PhD student at McGill University and Mila where I am advised by Prof. Jackie Cheung. I am currently interested in computational pragmatics.

Before starting my PhD, I earned a master’s degree in Computer Science from McGill University where I worked with Prof. Cheung along with Prof. Samira Rahimi on leveraging NLP techniques to assist health researchers in their analysis of patient-care data. Before my master’s, I earned a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (Joint Major) from Concordia University.

In terms of research services, I was an organizer for the McGill NLP reading group (2024-205). Before that, I was the organizer of the Mila Health and AI reading group (2022-2023).

Recent News

  • December 2025: After several years, I have finally completed the construction of my “Intro to Theoretical CS/Theory of Computation” resource page🎉🧮! This webpage is not meant to be a substitute for lectures, but rather a supplementary resource for problem solving and for more high-level/intuition-driven explanations. I’m very happy that I was able to get this done before 2026, as it had been a New Year’s resolution for 2025! I will likely refine these in the future, but it’s great to finally have everything all in one place!

  • November 2025: I gave a talk about \((RSA)^2\) to Lena Palaniyappan’s group at the Douglas Research Centre. We had a nice discussion about the uses of computational pragmatics and \((RSA)^2\) in the clinical setting.

  • September 2025: I once again TAed COMP 330 at McGill giving weekly tutorials which you can find here as well as office hours. Thanks to all the students who attended!

  • July and August 2025: During my trip to ACL 2025, I visited Prof. Vera Demberg’s group at Saarland University and Prof. Hinrich SchĂĽtze’s group at LMU Munich and give talks about Capturing Intentions within Figurative Language. I didn’t record my talks while I was there, so I have recorded it and posted it to my YouTube channel.

  • June 2025: New paper \((RSA)^2\): A Rhetorical-Strategy-Aware Rational Speech Act Framework for Figurative Language Understanding to appear at ACL 2025 (Main) is out and can be found here. We’re also presenting this work at SCiL 2025; a shorter abstract can be found here.

  • November 2024: I presented my paper Does This Summary Answer My Question? Modeling Query-Focused Summary Readers with Rational Speech Acts as a poster at the CustomNLP4U Workshop at EMNLP 2024. Poster and paper can be found here.

  • July 2024: Better late than never! I have made a webpage for the Comp 330 (Theory of Computation) class I taught in the Fall 2023. Resources like lecture notes and assignments are now publicly accessible! This complements a previous post I made recounting my teaching experience.

  • May 2024: I gave a lecture on NLP to the 2024 cohort of AI4Good students!