Mehak Dhaliwal
Hello! I'm a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, where
I am advised by Prof. Yao Qin in the REAL AI lab.
I'm interested in research in robust and fair AI, as well as AI for healthcare
and social
good.
Prior to this, I obtained an MS in Computer Science, specialising in AI, from UC San Diego. While
there, I researched in Prof. Julian McAuley's lab
on data efficient recommendation systems.
I obtained my B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT, Delhi, where I
worked with
Prof. Aaditeshwar
Seth on fairness and diversity in content recommendation.
I also spent two years as a software engineer in the On-Device AI team at Samsung R&D Institute
where I worked on a wide range of projects in Information Retrieval and NLP.
Please feel free to reach out if any of my work or interests align with yours!
News
- July 2024: We are organizing the first workshop on medical foundation models at NeurIPS!
- June 2024: Released a new benchmark NutriBench for nutrition estimation with LLMs.
- May 2024: A Shocking Amount of the Web is Machine Translated: Insights from Multi-Way Parallelism accepted to ACL Findings. This work has been covered by Politico, The Atlantic, Slator, Vice, TechInsider, Futurism, and others.
- April 2024: Two abstracts on the glycemic effect of exercise for Type 1 diabetes accepted to ADA 2024.
- September 2023: Started my PhD at UC Santa Barbara!
- September 2023: Concluded a summer internship at Amazon Web Services.