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Elisa Kreiss is an Assistant Professor of Communication at UCLA and the director of the Coalas Lab, which focuses on Computation and Language for Society. Her research integrates natural language processing, psycholinguistics, and human-computer interaction to study how communicative context influences language use, with applications to image accessibility for visually impaired users. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University, advised by Christopher Potts, and has been affiliated with Stanford’s NLP group and the Stanford Data Science Center for Open and Reproducible Science (CORES).
Her education includes a PhD in Linguistics from Stanford (2017-2022) and prior academic work spanning computational linguistics and cognitive science. Her research is supported by grants from Google Research, the National Science Foundation, and Stanford’s Human-Centered AI initiative. She advocates for inclusive academic environments and has received Stanford’s Community Impact Award (2022).
Key research themes include: 1) Human-centered evaluation of AI systems, 2) Accessibility of visual information for disabled users, 3) Causal modeling in NLP, and 4) Pragmatics of language generation. Her lab develops tools like CHART-6 for assessing data visualization understanding and Mosaic for simulating social AI dynamics.
Her scientific awards reflect both technical excellence and societal impact, including grants focused on open science practices and recognition for fostering community engagement. She actively mentors students through the Coalas Lab and collaborates with interdisciplinary teams on projects addressing real-world communication challenges.
