About me

I received Ph.D. in Computer Science in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) within the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at the University of Florida. I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Bonnie J. Dorr in the NLP & C (Natural Language Processing and Culture) Laboratory.

My research spans Artificial Intelligence, with particular interests in Natural Language Processing, Data Science, and Medical Imaging, focusing on the development of interpretable and reliable models for human-centered and biomedical applications. My dissertation, “REFLECT: Role-Aware Extraction of Forms of Linguistic Expression for Communication Tracking,” investigates how linguistic signals such as sentiment, emotion, politeness, formality, and semantic roles can be modeled to better understand communication effectiveness and interactional misalingments. This work also extends to multilingual settings through explainable cross-lingual Semantic Role Labeling and transformer-based language models. During this period, I contributed to federally funded research through DARPA’s INCAS program and an NIH R01 project on linguistic markers of well-being, with publications spanning NLP and health-focused venues.

Building on this foundation, my research expands toward biomedical and medical AI. I am currently working on retrieval-augmented medical question answering that combines knowledge-graph retrieval with LLM-grounded generation to improve the reliability of biomedical responses, as well as medical imaging research that integrates imaging and clinical data to predict radiation-induced skin toxicity. Across these areas, my broader goal is to develop AI methods that are not only effective, but also interpretable, robust, and useful in real-world decision-making settings.

Prior to joining UF, I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Library and Information Science (LIS) and Data Science from Sungkyunkwan University, and a Master of Science in Data Science from the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University.

I am a passionate CrossFitter and ski lover🎿.