Yulia Tsvetkov

yulia I am an associate professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. My research is in natural language processing (NLP) and AI, developing language technologies that are reliable, socially aware, and linguistically inclusive. I am particularly interested in models that can reason and adapt to people, languages, cultures, and real-world contexts. Methodologically, this research combines machine learning with insights from sociolinguistics and cognitive science to model how people use and interpret language in context.

Much of my research group's work focuses on the capabilities and limitations of large language models, including reasoning and personalization, AI ethics and safety, multilingual and culturally inclusive modeling, and high-stakes applications such as AI for health and AI for science. This research is motivated by a unified goal of "NLP for All": to extend language technology beyond narrow populations and across linguistic and cultural boundaries, thereby enabling reliable and equitable AI for a broader range of users and contexts.

Here are my CV and Google Scholar page.

I am also a Technical Venture Partner at AI House and a member of the Advisory Board of Schmidt Sciences' Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI). Previously, I was an assistant professor in the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where I am currently an adjunct professor. Before that, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Stanford NLP Group. I received my PhD from CMU.

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