Clara Na
Hello! I am a 3rd 4th year PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute. I am fortunate to be advised by Emma Strubell and supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. In 2023, I spent a wonderful summer in Seattle as an intern on the AllenNLP team at AI2, working with Jesse Dodge and Pradeep Dasigi.
Before coming to CMU, I earned a BA in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Virginia. I began my research journey at UVA looking for “subtractive” design in patents with Katelyn Stenger and Leidy Klotz. My NLP origin story involves my half-baked bilingualism, a data science internship at the Washington Post, and some generous mentorship from Yangfeng Ji.
I study efficient methods and efficiency evaluation in NLP/ML. I am broadly interested in language, information, impacts and applications of language technologies, and the communities of people who build and use them.
Misc: I was born and raised in northern Virginia (NoVA). My middle name is 선우 (Seon-Woo) – I am a second generation Korean American. I have a younger brother who also went to CMU. In my spare time, I like playing piano (especially with other people), running, climbing, and reading.
news
Sep 2024 | Our paper, Scalable Data Ablation Approximations for Language Models through Modular Training and Merging, has been accepted to EMNLP 2024! |
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Apr 2024 | Attending Midwest Speech and Language Days to present preliminary work on scalable data ablation approximations :) |
Dec 2023 | Excited to be attending EMNLP 2024 in Singapore! I will be giving a talk on our work (co- with Sireesh and Amanda) on Sunday |
Oct 2023 | Three papers accepted to EMNLP! |
Aug 2023 | We won a Best Paper award at the LTI Student Research Symposium! |