Hey, I’m Shayne!

I am an Machine Learning Scientist starting my PhD at the Center for Constructive Communication at MIT with Prof. Deb Roy in the Fall. My research focuses on Natural Language Processing, applied to informational, social, and (soon) civic challenges.

Prior, I was an Applied ML Scientist at Apple, a researcher at Stanford NLP lab (2017), advised by Chris Manning and Danqi Chen, and at Salesforce Research (2016), under the supervision of Caiming Xiong and Richard Socher. I completed a BA in Economics (2016) and MS in Computer Science (2018) at Stanford University.

I’m also very interested in the role of antitrust and law in regulating new technologies. In my free time I enjoy soccer, reading philosophy, creative writing, and learning new languages.

Recent News

• 2022.02: New preprint Active Learning Over Multiple Domains in Natural Language Tasks

• 2022.01: Co-organizing the Multilingual Information Access Workshop at NAACL 2022

• 2021.10: Chaired the Question Answering Evaluation Session at SCAI 2021

• 2021.10: Gave a talk at UCI NLP on Knowledge Conflicts in Question Answering

• 2021.08: Knowledge Conflicts in Question Answering is accepted to EMNLP 2021. [Dataset/Code.]

• 2021.06: Our 26 language evaluation set Multilingual Knowledge Questions and Answers was accepted to TACL 2021. [Dataset/Code.]