Lindia Tjuatja

Hi! I’m Lindia, a PhD student at CMU’s Language Technologies Institute advised by Graham Neubig. I am also am a frequent visitor at NYU with Tal Linzen.

My research largely centers around understanding how models of language learn structure in text (linguistic or otherwise), and how this may allow them to exhibit more complex behaviors. These interests manifest in work across evaluation and interpretability, often with a linguistics and cognitive science bend. I also work on NLP for understudied and endangered languages.

Before CMU, I did my undergrad at UT Austin, where I studied linguistics and computer engineering. During my time there, I worked extensively with John Beavers. I’ve also been fortunate enough to have great mentorship from many others, including the amazing computational linguistics faculty there. The summer before my senior year, I was an intern at CMU working with Shruti Rijhwani.

In my (precious) free time, I enjoy painting (oil and gouache are my mediums of choice), playing the viola, hanging out with my cat, running, and reading!