Machine Learning Engineer
Email: jmurzaku <at> cs.stonybrook <dot> edu
About me
I'm a Machine Learning Engineer at Adobe on the Adobe Experience Platform GenAI team. Previously, I did my Ph.D. in computer science at Stony Brook University working on belief and cognitive state modeling in text and speech. I was advised by Owen Rambow.
My work broadly spans computational linguistics and cognitive science. I have worked on bridging theory-of-mind concepts with modern NLP. I am also interested in large language model's ability to detect hedges, sarcasm, or other subtle markers of speaker intent. Some of this work is a joint and ongoing collaboration with Susan Brennan from the Stony Brook Psychology Department.
Updates
Successfully defended my Ph.D.! I will begin at Adobe on 5/27 and will be moving to San Francisco.
My Adobe internship work on Enhanced Clarification for Interactive Responses (ECLAIR) to appear AAAI 2025 (Demo) and IAAI 2025. Another publication on Synthetic Audio Data accepted to Findings of NAACL 2025.
Interned at the Genius Institute at Gap International as an NLP Engineer. I helped leverage LLMs to detect patterns of genius and built an unsupervised clustering pipeline for genius detection. I was mentored by my amazing father Alex Murzaku (also fulfilling my childhood dream of one day working together with my dad).