Rheeya Uppaal

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I am a second year PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where I work with Prof Junjie Hu on building reliable language models that are truthful ['23] and aligned to user defined standards, by intervening on a model's internal architecture. I am also interested in developing techniques for language models to generalize to tasks and domains with limited or no supervision. ['23, '23, '21, '19]

Prior to my PhD, I was a researcher at Goldman Sachs CoreAI, where I worked on information extraction and interpretability methods for text in the financial domain under Dr Vijay Saraswat. I completed my Masters in Computer Science at UMass Amherst, where I worked under the wonderful guidance of Prof Andrew McCallum and Prof Madalina Fiterau. I started my journey of research as an undergraduate, working with Prof Balaraman Ravindran at IIT Madras, and was introduced to the world of Machine Learning by Prof Emma Brunksill at CMU's amazing OurCS Workshop.

You can find my single page Resumé here, or a more detailed CV here.