Ellie Paek
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
- Emora Assistant Bot: Revolutionizing Task Automation and Chatbot Evaluation (Spring 2024 · Highest Honor)
Publications
- 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
- Reference-Aligned Retrieval-Augmented Question Answeringover Heterogeneous Proprietary Documents — ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2025
- 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
- Enhancing Task-oriented Dialogue Systems Through Synchronous Multi-party Interaction and Multi-group Virtual Simulation — Information: Feature Papers in Artificial Intelligence 2024, 2024
- 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)