Sophie Hao joins the faculty!
The linguistics department is thrilled to welcome Sophie Hao to the faculty as Assistant Professor. A specialist in computational linguistics, Professor Hao does research on issues related to deep neural network models including interpretability, explainability, and bias. You can learn more about her research interests on her website at notaphonologist.com.
Sophie Hao has a remarkable educational background, including a joint PhD in Computer Science and Linguistics from Yale (2022), where she was advised by Bob Frank and Dana Angluin — the first joint CS and Linguistics PhD at Yale ever! But this was not *her* first joint degree; she also holds a BA in Mathematics and Linguistics from UChicago. She was most recently a postdoc at NYU, where among other things she collaborated with Tal Linzen on a project showing that statistically trained language models like BERT form representations of morphosyntactic features during training.
Given her broad educational background and diverse set of research interests, Prof. Hao is extremely interesting to talk to. If you see her, say hello!
