Maria Antoniak is a Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, and also affiliated with Information Science.
Previously, she was a Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI and a postdoc at the Pioneer Centre for AI at the University of Copenhagen. She completed her PhD in Information Science at Cornell University, advised by David Mimno, and also received a master’s degree in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington.
Antoniak's research focuses on natural language processing and cultural analytics, and she develops and critically evaluates computational methods to analyze how language reflects culture and society. She frequently collaborates with interdisciplinary teams in healthcare, the humanities, and the social sciences.
Some recent themes of interest include probes of pretraining datasets, social storytelling in online communities, poetry as data, narrative medicine, and investigations of how people are actually using language models, especially for creative and personal goals.