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Ellie Paek

BS in Computer Science and Mathematics; BA in Music → Research Assistant in Conversational AI

Fall 2022 ~ Summer 2025

Ellie Paek earned a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics and BA in Music from Emory University (Spring 2024), and worked as a research assistant in Conversational AI at Emory NLP (Summer 2025). After Emory, Ellie joined the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University as a research engineer.

Education

  • BS in Computer Science and Mathematics; BA in Music, Emory University (2024)

Honors Thesis

Publications

  1. Why Are We Lonely? Leveraging LLMs to Measure and Understand Loneliness in Caregivers and Non-caregivers — EACL Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing), 2026
  2. Reference-Aligned Retrieval-Augmented Question Answeringover Heterogeneous Proprietary Documents — ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2025
  3. Finding A Voice: Exploring the Potential of African American Dialect and Voice Generation for Chatbots — Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
  4. Enhancing Task-oriented Dialogue Systems Through Synchronous Multi-party Interaction and Multi-group Virtual Simulation — Information: Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024, 2024
  5. Leveraging Large Language Models for Automated Dialogue Analysis — Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), 2023

Achievements

  • Academic Achievement Award, Emory Computer Science (05/2024)
  • Dean's List (Spring 2022, Fall 2023, Spring 2023)