Sonia Murthy
Kempner Graduate Fellow
PhD Student in Computer Science
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About
Sonia Murthy is a second-year PhD student in Computer Science advised by Professor Tomer Ullman and Professor Elena Glassman. Sonia is interested in combining methods from natural language processing, computational cognitive science, and human-computer interaction to develop models of human-machine communication and theory of mind reasoning. Previously, she was a predoctoral researcher on the Semantic Scholar team at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), where she worked on multi-document approaches for generating diverse descriptions of scientific concepts. Sonia received her bachelor’s from Princeton University as an Independent Concentrator in Intelligent Systems.
Research Focus
Murthy’s current research focuses on cognitive science, language models, and human-AI interaction.