Allyson Ettinger
Senior Research Scientist at Ai2
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolAllyson Ettinger is a Senior Research Scientist specializing in natural language processing and AI with over a decade of research experience spanning academia and industry. She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Maryland and transitioned from assistant professor at the University of Chicago to research roles at the Allen Institute for AI, where she progressed from visiting researcher to senior research scientist. Her work bridges theoretical linguistics and practical NLP, informed by cognitive neuroscience and multilingual experience (including a certificate in Chinese and American studies). Known for rigorous, reproducible research, she brings deep expertise in language understanding and model evaluation to applied AI problems. Colleagues describe her as someone who blends careful experimental design with an eye for deploying insights where they improve model robustness. Based in Pittsburgh, she pairs curiosity-driven scholarship with a track record of moving ideas toward real-world impact.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, Chinese and American Studies, Graduate Certificate, Chinese and American Studies at Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American StudiesDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Linguistics at University of MarylandB.A., Linguistics, Psychology, B.A., Linguistics, Psychology at Brandeis University
Github Skills (8)
data-processing9
nlp9
llm8
large-language-models8
linguistics5
topic-modeling4
language-processing4
natural-language-processing3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aetting/lm-diagnostics
Jul 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:80 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
aetting/OE-SafetyEval
Feb 2024 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 196 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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