ABOUT
Hello! I am Rebecca, and I am currently a Research Associate at the CYENS Centre of Excellence, where I am leading efforts to develop language technologies for Cypriot Greek. Previously, I was a Google DeepMind Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with Dr. Nanyun Peng's PLUSLAB, as well as Dr. Rena Torres Cacoullos at Pennsylvania State University.
Broadly, I like producing language technologies that aid in maintaining language practices. Hobbies include writing, dancing flamenco, and collecting earrings!
EDUCATION
Master of Science, Computer Science, UCLA
Bachelor of Science with Honors, Computer Science (AI Focus), Stanford University
Minor in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity, Stanford University
Minor in Dance, Stanford University
PUBLICATIONS
Alvero, A., & Pattichis, R. (2024, July). Multilingualism and Mismatching: Identification and Analysis of
Spanish Language Usage in College Admissions Essays. Poetics.
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Pattichis, R. (2024). Grounding Code-Switching Evaluation to Community Speech Patterns. [Masters Thesis,
UCLA]. UCLA ProQuest Repository. Advisor: Prof. Nanyun Peng.
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Wan, Y., Subramonian, A., Ovalle, A., Lin, Z., Suvarna, A., Chance, C., Bansal, H., Pattichis, R., & Chang, K.
(2024, April). Survey of Bias In Text-to-Image Generation: Definition, Evaluation, and Mitigation.
ArXiv.
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Pattichis, R., & Pattichis, M. (2024, March). Understanding Neural Network Systems for Image Analysis
using Vector Spaces. In The IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI).
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Pattichis, R., LaCasse, D., Trawick, S., & Torres Cacoullos, R. (2023, December). Code-switching Metrics Using
Intonation Units. In The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
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Vinella, A., Capetz, M0., Pattichis, R., Chance, C., Ghosh, R., & Chang, K. (2023, October). Leveraging Language
Models to Detect Greenwashing. ArXiv.
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Pattichis, R. (2022). Centering the Voices of First-Generation Immigrant Youth: Multilingual NLP Methods in
the Translanguaging Context. [Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Stanford University]. Stanford Digital Repository.
Advisor: Prof. Christopher Manning.
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WORK EXPERIENCE
- Feb 2025 -- Present, Program Coordinator and Data Analyst, UCLA's Engineering Pathway Program.
- Sept 2024 -- Feb 2025, Research Associate, CYENS Centre of Excellence.
- Sept 2022 -- Sept 2024, Google DeepMind Fellow, UCLA.
- June 2021 -- Sept 2021, Software Engineer, Raheem AI.
- June 2020 -- Sept 2020, Research Intern, Stanford Computational Policy Lab.
- Sept 2018 -- June 2022, Lead Community Coordinator, Stanford University, El Centro Chicano y Latino.
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AWARDS
- Google DeepMind Fellow, UCLA, 2022--2024.
- Class of 2022 Stanford Award of Excellence, Stanford University, 2022.
- Cecilia and Tony Burciaga Community Development Award, Stanford's El Centro Chicano y Latino, 2022.
- Latinx Students in Technology Scholarship, Cadence, 2021.
- CS for Social Good Fellowship, Stanford University, 2021.
- VPUE STEM Fellow, Stanford University, 2020.
TEACHING & MENTORING
- Sept 2024 -- June 2025, Undergraduate Thesis Mentor, University of Cyprus.
- June 2024 -- July 2024, Lecturer for CS30: Principles and Practices of Computing, UCLA.
- June 2023 -- Aug 2023, Machine Learning Graduate Tutor, Break Through Tech AI.
Acknowledgement: This website uses the design and template from Shiori Sagawa and Amita Kamath.