Hi there! 👋
Originally from the Finnish Arctic, I’m currently a final-year PhD student in the Michtom School of Computer Science at Brandeis University, where I’m advised by Constantine Lignos.
My research centers on low-resource NLP and AI and is motivated by the fact that only about 100 out of 7,000 existing languages are supported by current AI and language technology.
In addition to model building and resource creation, I develop methods to better understand what types of tasks/languages models perform well at, what they struggle with and what factors explain performance disparities. I am also interested in how factors such as tokenization impact model model performance, especially in low-resource settings.
My research has been published at leading NLP conferences (e.g. NAACL, EMNLP, Findings of the ACL, LREC), and workshops. My work has also been recognized with several awards: a best paper award at the Insights from Negative Results Workshop at EACL 2023 and a winning submission to the Multi-Label Similar Language Identification Shared Task at VarDial 2024.
I am currently looking for AI/ML engineer and industry research positions starting in early 2026. Feel free to reach out if you have an opening that you think would be a good fit! Extra points if the position involves multilinguality or low-resource languages.