Amandalynne Paullada joins us as Acting Assistant Professor in Autumn 2024. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education in the UW School of Medicine, funded by the National Library of Medicine, and has also taught courses in health informatics and data analytics in the School of Nursing and Healthcare Leadership at UW Tacoma.
As a postdoctoral fellow, she contributed to research that examined the potential for language technologies to support domain experts in advancing digital health equity through translation and adaptation of healthcare interventions. Amandalynne completed her PhD in Computational Linguistics at UW in 2021. Her dissertation proposed a framework for characterizing the social impact of language technologies, using her own work in building and evaluating a literature-based model of biomedical knowledge as a case study.
Her research since then has continued to focus on how language technology interacts with language access and language justice in the digital sphere. Find out more about her research here on her personal website: http://www.amandalynne.pw/
This quarter, she is teaching a section of LING 575 that examines ethical, legal, and economic issues related to the data that is used to train and evaluate NLP models. She will be teaching LING 571 in Winter 2025 and LING 573 in Spring 2025.