Howdy! I’m a PhD student at UC Berkeley with a research focuses on understanding lots of data, interpreting generative models, and evaluating large vision and language models. For more info, check out my publications or definitely outdated CV.
I am happily advised by Joey Gonzalez in Sky Computing Lab and Trevor Darrell in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research lab (although you have to ask them whether they are pleased with the arrangement).
I also have Tourette Syndrome, so please excuse any snorting, squeaking, eye rolling, or other out-of-distribution behavior if you meet me IRL. I wrote an essay on the topic if you would like to learn more, or feel free to ask me questions directly.
Socials
Twitter: @lisabdunlap Threads/Instagram: @lisa_b_dunlap (my insta is exclusively nail art)
I also have a low-budget podcast with my friend Conor Power where we interview academics about their research and PhD life. You can find episodes on Spotify and Youtube. Fair warning it is very much still in its cringe phase.
For undergrads interested in doing research with me, check out my contact page.
Current Masters/Undergraduate Students
Past Students
Karina Le (now at Anthropic)
Clara Mohri (now PhD Student at Harvard)
Han(Paris) Zhang (now MS student at Stanford)
Shreyas Krishnaswamy (now at Anyscale)
Jiezhi(Stephen) Yang (now MS student at Harvard)
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