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I am a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago studying natural language processing. I am advised by Chenhao Tan and am a member of the Communication & Intelligence and Chicago Human+AI labs.
My research interests include building and evaluating the abilities of NLP systems, such as language models, to model messy, complex, and unusual real-world data. Lately, I've been working on:
- Identifying and modeling the spread and impact of economic narratives.
- Long-document reasoning and summarization in the legal domain.
Recently, I've worked on understanding how language shapes bilateral bargaining.
Last summer, I interned at AWS AI Labs working on developing more efficient methods for LLM alignment.
I received my bachelor's degree at the University of Washington. After graduating, I spent a couple years as a member of Noah Smith's research group, Noah's ARK.
Please email me at: mourad@uchicago.edu
You can usually find me on campus in John Crerar Library (JCL)