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Alexandra
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Maple
Avenue
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Apt
3
B
Cambridge
,
MA
02139
alexandra
.
voss
@
university
.
edu
Dedicated
Master
'
s
student
in
Computer
Science
with
a
focus
on
Natural
Language
Processing
and
human
-
centered
AI
.
Research
experience
in
multilingual
transformer
models
and
discourse
parsing
.
Passionate
about
building
inclusive
NLP
systems
and
bridging
computational
linguistics
with
real
-
world
applications
.
Strong
background
in
statistical
modeling
,
deep
learning
,
and
corpus
linguistics
.
EDUCATION
Sep
2024 –
May
2026 (
expected
)
Cambridge
,
MA
Master
of
Science
in
Computer
Science
Harvard
John
A
.
Paulson
School
of
Engineering
and
Applied
Sciences
Thesis
:
Cross
-
lingual
Discourse
Parsing
for
Low
-
Resource
Languages
—
Advisor
:
Prof
.
Elena
Marchetti
.
GPA
: 3.92/4.0.
Coursework
:
Advanced
NLP
,
Deep
Learning
,
Computational
Semantics
,
Machine
Translation
,
Information
Extraction
,
Probabilistic
Graphical
Models
.
Sep
2020 –
May
2024
Providence
,
RI
Bachelor
of
Science
in
Computer
Science
&
Linguistics
Brown
University
Magna
cum
laude
.
GPA
: 3.88/4.0.
Honors
thesis
:
Evaluating
Bias
in
Multilingual
Word
Embeddings
.
Relevant
coursework
:
Computational
Linguistics
,
Machine
Learning
,
Data
Structures
and
Algorithms
,
Formal
Semantics
,
Phonology
,
Cognitive
Science
.
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
Jun
2025 –
Present
Cambridge
,
MA
Graduate
Research
Assistant
Harvard
NLP
Group
—
Prof
.
Elena
Marchetti
Building
a
cross
-
lingual
discourse
parser
for
five
low
-
resource
languages
(
Hausa
,
Somali
,
Swahili
,
Amharic
,
Tigrinya
)
using
multilingual
BERT
and
transfer
learning
from
Universal
Dependencies
treebanks
.
Curated
and
annotated
a
parallel
discourse
corpus
spanning
3,200
documents
across
5
languages
;
achieved
inter
-
annotator
agreement
of
κ
= 0.81.
Designed
a
novel
attention
-
based
hierarchical
architecture
that
improved
discourse
relation
classification
F
1
by
8.3%
over
prior
state
-
of
-
the
-
art
.
Jun
2024 –
Aug
2024
Seattle
,
WA
Research
Intern
—
NLP
for
Social
Good
Allen
Institute
for
AI
(
AI
2)
Developed
a
lightweight
toxicity
detection
model
for
low
-
resource
African
languages
using
knowledge
distillation
from
a
large
teacher
model
,
reducing
model
size
by
65%
while
retaining
91%
of
the
teacher
'
s
macro
-
F
1.
Published
a
benchmark
dataset
of
12,000
socially
sourced
text
samples
annotated
for
hate
speech
and
offensive
language
across
Swahili
,
Yoruba
,
and
Hausa
.
Collaborated
with
a
team
of
four
researchers
;
results
accepted
at
EMNLP
2024
as
a
short
paper
.
Jan
2024 –
May
2024
Providence
,
RI
Undergraduate
Research
Assistant
Brown
University
,
CLiPS
Lab
—
Prof
.
James
Osei
1 / 3
Investigated
gender
and
occupational
bias
in
multilingual
static
embeddings
(
FastText
)
and
contextualized
models
(
mBERT
,
XLM
-
R
)
across
English
,
French
,
Arabic
,
and
Mandarin
.
Implemented
a
novel
bias
-
mitigation
technique
based
on
subspace
projection
,
reducing
gender
bias
by
up
to
34%
while
maintaining
downstream
task
performance
on
NER
and
POS
tagging
.
Presented
findings
at
the
Brown
Undergraduate
Research
Symposium
and
received
the
Dean
'
s
Prize
for
Outstanding
Research
.
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Sep
2024 –
Dec
2024
Cambridge
,
MA
Teaching
Fellow
—
CS
282:
Advanced
Natural
Language
Processing
Harvard
University
Led
weekly
discussion
sections
of
25
graduate
students
;
covered
sequence
-
to
-
sequence
models
,
attention
mechanisms
,
and
large
language
model
fine
-
tuning
.
Designed
and
graded
three
programming
assignments
(
PyTorch
implementations
of
seq
2
seq
,
Transformer
,
and
BERT
fine
-
tuning
).
Held
weekly
office
hours
;
received
an
average
teaching
rating
of
4.7/5.0
from
student
evaluations
.
Jan
2024 –
May
2024
Providence
,
RI
Undergraduate
Teaching
Assistant
—
CSCI
1470:
Machine
Learning
Brown
University
Supported
80+
students
in
lab
sections
covering
supervised
and
unsupervised
learning
,
regularization
,
SVMs
,
neural
networks
,
and
model
evaluation
.
Co
-
developed
a
new
lab
module
on
bias
and
fairness
in
ML
,
now
part
of
the
permanent
curriculum
.
PUBLICATIONS
Voss
,
A
.
,
Mwangi
,
K
.,
and
Marchetti
,
E
. (2025).
A
Hierarchical
Attention
Framework
for
Cross
-
lingual
Discourse
Parsing
.
In
Proceedings
of
the
63
rd
Annual
Meeting
of
the
Association
for
Computational
Linguistics
(
ACL
2025).
Vienna
,
Austria
.
Osei
,
J
.,
Voss
,
A
.
,
and
Tran
,
L
. (2024).
Lightweight
Toxicity
Detection
for
Low
-
Resource
African
Languages
:
A
Knowledge
Distillation
Approach
.
In
Proceedings
of
the
2024
Conference
on
Empirical
Methods
in
Natural
Language
Processing
(
EMNLP
2024),
Short
Papers
.
Miami
,
FL
.
Voss
,
A
.
and
Osei
,
J
. (2024).
Evaluating
and
Mitigating
Gender
Bias
in
Multilingual
Static
and
Contextualized
Embeddings
.
Brown
Undergraduate
Research
Symposium
Proceedings
,
pp
. 34–41.
Providence
,
RI
.
SKILLS
Programming
Languages
Python
,
C
++,
Java
,
JavaScript
,
R
,
SQL
,
Bash
ML
/
DL
Frameworks
PyTorch
,
TensorFlow
,
Hugging
Face
Transformers
,
JAX
,
scikit
-
learn
,
NLTK
,
spaCy
Research
&
Tools
LaTeX
,
Git
,
Docker
,
Slurm
,
Weights
&
Biases
,
Jupyter
,
Overleaf
,
Tableau
Languages
English
—
Native
German
—
Native
French
—
Advanced
(
C
1)
Arabic
—
Intermediate
(
B
1)
HONORS
&
AWARDS
2025
—
NSF
Graduate
Research
Fellowship
Program
(
GRFP
)
Honorable
Mention
2024
—
Dean
'
s
Prize
for
Outstanding
Undergraduate
Research
,
Brown
University
2024
2023
2 / 3
—
Phi
Beta
Kappa
Honor
Society
—
Goldwater
Scholarship
Nominee
2022
—
Upsilon
Pi
Epsilon
(
Computer
Science
Honor
Society
)
2021
—
Brown
University
Academic
Excellence
Scholarship
(
merit
-
based
,
renewable
)
SERVICE
&
LEADERSHIP
Sep
2024 –
Present
Cambridge
,
MA
Co
-
Founder
&
President
Harvard
NLP
for
Social
Good
Reading
Group
Organized
weekly
meetings
and
invited
speakers
from
academia
and
industry
for
30+
graduate
student
members
.
Led
a
semester
-
long
project
track
that
produced
two
shared
-
task
submissions
on
equitable
NLP
evaluation
.
2022 – 2024
Providence
,
RI
Outreach
Coordinator
Brown
University
Women
in
Computer
Science
(
WiCS
)
Organized
annual
high
school
coding
workshops
for
200+
students
from
underrepresented
backgrounds
in
Rhode
Island
.
Co
-
authored
a
successful
grant
application
for
$
12,000
from
the
National
Center
for
Women
&
Information
Technology
(
NCWIT
).
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