Lucy Li
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington
lucy3li@cs.washington.edu
About Me
I am a postdoc at the University of Washington, working with Yulia Tsvetkov and Noah Smith.
My research is on natural language processing (NLP), computational social science + humanities (e.g. cultural analytics), and human-centered AI development.
Starting Fall 2026, I'll be an assistant prof at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Computer Sciences department. I previously attended Berkeley for my PhD and Stanford for my BS and MS.
I'm interested in:
- Societal impact and safety of language models (LMs) and generated content
- Computational sociolinguistics
- Evaluation, analysis, and improvement of human-AI interactions
- Culturally competent and inclusive NLP
- LMs as content analysis tools, especially for media studies, literature, and education researchers
My CV.
Katie Keith, Naitian Zhou, and I have a podcast, Diaries of Social Data Research, where we chat with researchers on the process behind interdisciplinary papers.
Miscellaneous
I've had two pet garden snails, both named Clementine.
My Merlin bird app says I've seen 253 species of birds since I started tracking in 2022.
Thanks Martin Saveski for this website template.