Howdy! I’m a PhD student at UC Berkeley with a research focuses on understanding lots of data and interpreting/evaluating generative models. I also help lead the Chatbot Arena, a platform for community-driven LLM/VLM evaluations.
I am happily advised by Joey Gonzalez in Sky Computing Lab and Trevor Darrell in the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research lab (although you will have to ask them if they are pleased with the arrangement). I also work quite closely with Jacob Steinhardt because he’s pretty fun too.
I also have Tourette Syndrome, so please excuse any snorting, squeaking, eye rolling, or other out-of-distribution behavior if you meet me IRL. I wrote an essay on the topic if you would like to learn more, or feel free to ask me questions directly.
Socials
Twitter: @lisabdunlap Threads/Instagram: @lisa_b_dunlap (my insta is exclusively nail art)
I also have a low-budget podcast with my friend Conor Power where we interview academics about their research and PhD life. You can find episodes on Spotify and Youtube. Fair warning it is very much still in its cringe phase.
For undergrads interested in doing research with me, check out my contact page.
Current Masters/Undergraduate Students
Past Students
Karina Le (now at Anthropic)
Clara Mohri (now PhD Student at Harvard)
Han(Paris) Zhang (now MS student at Stanford)
Shreyas Krishnaswamy (now at Anyscale)
Jiezhi(Stephen) Yang (now MS student at Harvard)
WARNING: viewing on mobile will distort some of the pictures