Chantal Shaib

Hello! I'm a post-doctoral researcher at MIT, working with Marzyeh Ghassemi. I recently graduated with a PhD from Northeastern University, advised by Byron Wallace. My research focuses on evaluating linguistic diversity in generative models and its downstream implications for robustness, novelty, and societal impact.

I am also the developer/maintainer of diversity, a Python toolkit for (efficiently) evaluating diversity in text.

Generally, I'm interested in LLM evals, modeling language and its structure, e.g.,

Please see my Google Scholar for an up-to-date list of my publications!

In the past, I received my MSc in Applied Computing at the University of Toronto (advised by Frank Rudzicz); and before that, I received my BSc in Neuroscience at Carleton University. I also love fiber arts; you can often find me knitting in my free time.

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