Maria Ryskina she/they

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I recently finished my postdoc at Ev Fedorenko’s lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. My research studies long-tail phenomena in language using methodologies from natural language processing, machine learning, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience.

I completed my PhD in Language and Information Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, where I was co-advised by Matt Gormley, Ed Hovy, and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. Before that, I recieved my BSc and MSc degrees from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Skoltech. I had also spent time at MIT InfoLab (2015) and DiDi Labs (2020).

Outside of research, I am a core organizer at Queer in AI 🌈

I am currently based in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦

news

Oct 7, 2024 I am serving as a Diversity & Inclusion Chair for ACL 2025.
May 17, 2024 The Elements of World Knowledge (EWOK) framework has been released!
Oct 19, 2023 The GenBench taxonomy and review article is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence!

selected publications

  1. Phonetic and Visual Priors for Decipherment of Informal Romanization
    In Proc. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020
  2. Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods
    In Proc. Society for Computation in Linguistics, 2020