Bio for Talks:
Abhilasha Ravichander is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Washington, and incoming faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. She received her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 2022. Her research focuses on improving the factuality, robustness, and transparency of large-scale language models. Abhilasha’s work has been presented at several top NLP conferences, receiving Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2025, Best Resource Paper Award at ACL 2024, Best Theme Paper Award at ACL 2024, Area Chair Favorite Paper award at COLING 2018, Best Paper Award at the NAACL 2025 TrustNLP Workshop, Best Paper Award at the Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium 2024, and Best Paper Award at the SoCalNLP 2022 symposium. She has been recognized as a "Rising Star in Generative AI" (2024), "Rising Star in EECS" (2022), and "Rising Star in Data Science" (2021).