Lindia Tjuatja

Hi! I’m Lindia, a final-year PhD at CMU’s Language Technologies Institute advised by Graham Neubig. I am also a frequent visitor at NYU with Tal Linzen. I work at the intersection of linguistics, cognitive science, and NLP. In Fall 2027, I will be an assistant professor at UT Austin Linguistics, joining the amazing computational linguistics faculty and broader NLP community.

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 of large language models, especially with respect to when, where, and how they may be similar or different to humans. From an applications angle, I also work on how our understanding of these models can aid in creating tools to better serve understudied and endangered languages.

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!