resume.json

{
  "basics": {
    "name": "Elinor Poole-Dayan",
    "email": "elinorpd@mit.edu",
    "url": "https://elinorp-d.github.io/",
    "location": {
      "city": "Cambridge",
      "countryCode": "USA",
      "region": "Massachusetts"
    },
    "summary": "NLP researcher passionate about equitable, ethical, safe AI for the benefit of all. My research interests include evaluation of LLMs for fairness and safety, pluralistic alignment, and developing equitable human-centered AI."
  },
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Massachusetts Institute of Technology",
      "location": "Cambridge, MA",
      "url": "https://ccc.mit.edu",
      "area": "Center for Constructive Communication",
      "studyType": "Master of Science",
      "startDate": "09/2023",
      "endDate": "present",
      "highlights": [
        "Supervised by Professor Deb Roy."
      ]
    },
    {
      "institution": "McGill University",
      "location": "Montreal, Canada",
      "url": "https://www.mcgill.ca/",
      "area": "Honours Math and Computer Science",
      "studyType": "Bachelor of Arts",
      "startDate": "09/2019",
      "endDate": "05/2023"
    }
  ],

  "publications": [
    {
      "name": "LLM Targeted Underperformance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Users",
      "publisher": "Safe Generative AI Workshop @ NeurIPS 2024",
      "releaseDate": "10/2024",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17737"
    },
    {
      "name": "On the Relationship between Truth and Political Bias in Language Models",
      "publisher": "Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)",
      "releaseDate": "11/2024",
      "url": "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.508"
    },
    {
      "name": "Are Diffusion Models Vision-And-Language Reasoners?",
      "publisher": "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)",
      "releaseDate": "05/2023",
      "url": "https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/file/1a675d804f50509b8e21d0d3ca709d03-Paper-Conference.pdf"
    },
    {
      "name": "An Empirical Survey of the Effectiveness of Debiasing Techniques for Pre-trained Language Models",
      "publisher": "Association for Computational Linguistics",
      "releaseDate": "05/2022",
      "url": "https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.132"
    }
  ],
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "MIT Center for Constructive Communication",
      "position": "Research Assistant",
      "startDate": "09/2023",
      "endDate": "present",
      "highlights": [],
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/cccatmit/",
      "location": "Cambridge, MA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Unity",
      "position": "Data Science Intern",
      "startDate": "05/2022",
      "endDate": "08/2022",
      "highlights": [
        "Decreased model training time by 25% and reduced model size and number of parameters by 50%.",
        "Began an initiative to incorporate app store game reviews as a new feature to the Ad Revenue model.",
        "Cleaned and explored data, built a neural network for sentiment analysis, and calculated the vector space embedding of each game.",
        "Created a data pipeline to do all of the preprocessing and vectorization in GCP Dataflow to speed up the process as well as make it more flexible and more easily reused."
      ],
      "summary": "Worked on the Ad Unit Innovation team and conducted feature engineering and hyperparameter tuning experiments on the bid throttling model.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/unity/",
      "location": "Montreal, Canada"
    },
    {
      "name": "McGill University",
      "position": "Undergraduate Student Researcher",
      "startDate": "01/2022",
      "endDate": "05/2022",
      "highlights": [
        "Models used to create an educational resource, LocatEd, for increasing location privacy awareness among Canadian youth.",
        "Supervised by Dr. Grant McKenzie."
      ],
      "summary": "Built probabilistic models for identifying the “geo-indicativeness” of text using novel machine learning techniques applied to big, public, geosocial datasets.",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/school/mcgill-university/"
    },
    {
      "name": "McGill University",
      "position": "Honours Algorithms and Data Structures Course Assistant",
      "startDate": "01/2022",
      "endDate": "05/2022",
      "highlights": [
        "Held weekly office hours for students in the course to answer their questions and help with assignments.",
        "Developed solutions for and graded assignments and exams."
      ],
      "summary": "",
      "url": "https://mcgill.ca",
      "location": "Montreal, Canada"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shamoon College of Engineering",
      "position": "Student Researcher",
      "startDate": "06/2021",
      "endDate": "08/2021",
      "highlights": [
        "Preprocessed and cleaned data using Stanford CoreNLP and scikit-learn.","Designed and implemented baseline experiments using SVMs.",
        "Project supervised by Dr. Irina Rabaev and Dr. Marina Litvak."
      ],
      "summary": "Machine learning (NLP) research project to predict author gender given a text with the goal of performing a case study on female authors who wrote books under male pseudonyms.",
      "url": "https://en.sce.ac.il/",
      "location": "Be'er Sheva, Israel"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mila Quebec AI Institute",
      "position": "Undergraduate Student Researcher",
      "startDate": "01/2021",
      "endDate": "05/2021",
      "highlights": [
        "Evaluated gender debiasing techniques on pre-trained language models using NLP (paper accepted to ACL'22).","Investigated the effect of gender debiasing on fine-tuned language models such as BERT using PyTorch.","Explored debiasing methods and reformulated bias metrics for racial and religious biases."
      ],
      "summary": "",
      "url": "https://mila.quebec/en",
      "location": "Montreal, Canada"
    }
  ],
  "more_work": [
    {
      "name": "Project Kesher",
      "position": "Summer Intern",
      "startDate": "05/2020",
      "endDate": "08/2020",
      "highlights": [
        "Coordinated with international partners and thoroughly documented the website for future reference.","Improved organization and security by introducing and implementing a password managing software.","Conducted foundation research in order to secure funding for the upcoming fiscal year.","Helped streamline workflow and increase at-home work efficiency."
      ],
      "summary": "Designed and created a multilingual website from scratch using WordPress.",
      "url": "https://www.projectkesher.org",
      "location": "New York, NY"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wave Hill",
      "position": "Forest Project Intern",
      "startDate": "06/2019",
      "endDate": "08/2019",
      "highlights": [
        "Excelled in a college level Geographic Information Systems (GIS) course.",
        "Conducted a field research project using independently collected data from the worksite and arcGIS software."
      ],
      "summary": "Built and maintained woodland trails, removed invasive plant species, implemented erosion control and helped document the process of restoring the disturbed woodland toward a more balanced state while working with a small crew.",
      "url": "https://wavehill.org",
      "location": "Riverdale, New York"
    },
    {
      "name": "Men Having Babies, Inc",
      "position": "Web Developer",
      "startDate": "09/2017",
      "endDate": "09/2022",
      "highlights": [
        "Completely modernized the organization's website and ensure responsiveness for mobile users using RapidWeaver.",
        "Lead the project to facilitate workflow and data management for website and incorporated a CMS.",
        "Engineered multiple user database systems in Alchemer using complex logical sequences."
      ],
      "summary": "",
      "url": "https://menhavingbabies.org",
      "location": "New York, NY"
    }
  ],
  "service": [
    {
      "name": "Reviewer for ACL Rolling Review (ARR) December",
      "date": "01/2025"
    },
    {
      "name": "Reviewer for ACL Rolling Review (ARR) October",
      "date": "11/2024"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Programming Languages",
      "keywords": [
        "Python", "Java", "SQL"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Machine Learning",
      "keywords": [
        "Tensorflow", "PyTorch", "Keras", "scikit-learn", "pandas", "NumPy"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Tools",
      "keywords": [
        "Git", "Docker", "Google Cloud Platform", "Amazon Web Services"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "interests": [
    {
      "name": "Natural Language Processing",
      "keywords": [
        "Large Language Models",
        "Fairness & Bias",
        "Ethics in AI",
        "Alignment",
        "Human-AI Collaboration",
        "Human-Centered AI"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "awards": [
    {
      "title": "Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Master's",
      "awarder": "Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)",
      "date": "04/2023",
      "summary": "$17,500"
    },
    {
      "title": "Excellence Scholarship - EDI in Research",
      "awarder": "Mila Quebec AI Institute",
      "date": "04/2023",
      "summary": "$5,000"
    },
    {
      "title": "Dean's Honour List",
      "date": "2019-2022",
      "awarder": "McGill University",
      "summary": "Top 10% of students by GPA."
    },
    {
      "title": "J W McConnell Scholarship",
      "awarder": "McGill University",
      "date": "2019-2022",
      "summary": "$9,000"
    },
    {
      "title": "Principal's Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement",
      "awarder": "Bronx High School of Science",
      "date": "06/2019",
      "summary": "Awarded to top students for outstanding academic achievement and leadership and service to the school."
    },
    {
      "title": "NY Cardiac Center Scholarship",
      "awarder": "NY Cardiac Center Scholarship",
      "date": "06/2019",
      "summary": "$20,000. Awarded to top 3 GPA in graduating class of 750 students."
    },
    {
      "title": "National Merit Scholarship Award Winner",
      "awarder": "National Merit Scholarship Corporation",
      "date": "04/2018",
      "summary": ""
    }
  ]
}