Akari Asai
Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarAkari Asai is a PhD candidate in NLP at the University of Washington and a visiting researcher at Meta, bringing a decade of experience across research internships and engineering roles at leading labs including AI2, Salesforce, Microsoft Research, and Google. Her work focuses on question answering, complex reasoning, and multilingual NLP, with a steady publication record available at her personal site. She combines deep research rigor with practical engineering experience—from browser and mobile search work to building NLP pipelines and annotation tools—enabling ideas to move quickly from prototype to production. Fluent in both Japanese and US research ecosystems, she has repeatedly bridged cross-cultural teams and applied ML to real-world products. An uncommon strength is her breadth across academia and industry, allowing her to pursue fundamental language modeling challenges while staying tuned to deployment constraints.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (44)
squad10
reflection10
xor10
wikipedia10
representations10
retrieval-augmented10
retrieval9
multilingual9
lms9
python9
nmt9
text-classification9
natural-language-processing9
question-answering9
passage9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mia-workshop/mia-workshop.github.io
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
Official website for MIA (Multilingual Information Access)
Contributions:1 review, 29 commits, 2 PRs in 8 months
miamultilingual
AkariAsai/XORQA
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
This is the official repository for NAACL 2021, "XOR QA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering".
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 22 pushes in 7 months
question-answeringxormultilingualopen-domain-qa
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