Heather Lent

Heather Lent

Postdoc (2022–)

Aalborg University

I am a postdoc researcher specialized in Natural Language Processing (NLP). My primary research interest is in remedying vulnerabilities across NLP. My work includes improving methods for low-resource machine learning for low-resource languages (e.g., Creoles) and domains (e.g., Medicine), as well as addressing cyber-security vulnerabilities inherent to training and deploying public-facing models (e.g., embedding inversion attacks).

Interests
  • LLM Security
  • Low-resource NLP
Education
  • PhD in Computer Science, 2022

    University of Copenhagen

  • MS Human Language Technology, 2016

    University of Arizona

  • BA Linguistics; Russian & Slavic Studies, 2015

    University of Arizona

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