Maria Ryskina she/her

I am a PhD candidate at the Language Technologies Institute of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. I am fortunate to be advised by Matt Gormley, Eduard Hovy, and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick.
My research takes an interdisciplinary approach to natural language processing, bringing together machine learning (latent variable models, finite-state models, unsupervised learning) and computational linguistics (morphology, linguistic typology, language change, psycholinguistics). I aim both to uncover new linguistic knowledge using computational methods and to leverage this knowledge to improve NLP applications.
I recieved my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Skoltech. I worked on my master’s thesis at MIT InfoLab. In 2020, I interned at DiDi Labs with Kevin Knight.
I also research the economic impact of AI as a part of the National Technology Strategy “moonshot” at CMU. I am a member of BergLab and LLab. Outside of work, I help out at Queer in AI and sing with the D♭ Singers.
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Mar 25, 2022 | I presented my work on modeling non-standard language at LCC lab @ University of Toronto. Slides are available here. |
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Feb 25, 2022 | I gave a talk about my thesis work on non-standard language at EvLab @ MIT BCS. Slides are available here. |
Feb 21, 2022 | I gave a talk about my work on non-standard language at the CLunch seminar @ University of Pennsylvania. You can find the slides here. |
Feb 8, 2022 | I presented my research on modeling non-standard language at MCQLL @ McGill University. Slides are available here. |
Feb 7, 2022 | I joined the technical advisory group for OpenITI Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project. Interested in OCR for Arabic and Persian historical documents? Watch a recording of our teleconference! |