Hi, I'm Alexis! I am currently a second-year PhD student at MIT CSAIL advised by Jacob Andreas and affiliated with the Language & Intelligence lab. I am grateful to be supported by an NSF graduate research fellowship. These days, I spend most of my time thinking about how to build NLP methods that can help support education, with a particular interest in building on computational models of pedagogy.

Before starting at MIT, I was a predoctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2). I graduated from Harvard University in 2020 with a joint B.A. in Computer Science and Philosophy.

I can be reached at alexisro [at] mit [dot] edu.

News

July 2023	New preprint on counterfactual evaluations of language models.
June 2023	New preprint on editing scientific papers in response to reviews.
June 2023	Started at the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute.
May 2023	Paper on rationalization & counterfactuals accepted at ACL 2023.
April 2023	Gave an invited talk at the IST & Unbabel Seminars.
April 2023	Selected for the NSF GRFP fellowship.
Jan 2023	Selected as a winner of the inverse scaling prize.
Dec 2022	Presented our paper on self-rationalization & robustness at EMNLP 2022.
Oct 2022	We've released cs-sop.org, a repo of example CS SOPs for grad school applications!
Sept 2022	Started my PhD at MIT!

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