About me

Hi! I'm Hita, a third year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania advised by Professor Andrew Head. My research is supported by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

My work is largely in the intersection between human-computer interaction and AI. I build tools to support organizing, contextualizing, and reasoning about complex information. Currently, I am interested in drawing from human processes to better guide language models to perform complex scientific reasoning tasks.

Previously, I attended Carnegie Mellon University where I studied information systems and computer science. During my time at CMU, I worked with Rohan Padhye at the Program Analysis, Software Testing, and Applications (PASTA) Research Group.

I'm looking for undergrads who are interested in working on human-AI interaction/human-centered NLP for sensemaking and/or decision-making in science domains. Please reach out if anything you see sounds interesting!