I am a Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, and a Senior Research Director at Meta. My research focuses on empirical methods for natural language semantics, and involves designing machine learning algorithms, introducing new tasks and datasets, analyzing model performance, and, most recently, studying how to best develop self-supervision signals for pre-training. My honors include being elected as ACL President (2024), named an ACL Fellow (2021), as well as winning a PECASE award (2016), an Allen Distinguished Investigator award (2014), and many best paper awards. I was an undergraduate at NC State, recieved my PhD from MIT, and was a postdocal researcher at the University of Edinburgh.