Before beginning a PhD program in computer science at Columbia University, Melanie Subbiah worked for OpenAI and Apple. “I’m really excited about technologies like ChatGPT,” she told Columbia News, “because they’ve really taken what we’ve done in natural language processing so much farther pretty quickly.” In this installment of In the Lab, Subbiah discusses what led her to study natural language processing–a subset of AI–and her plan to combine her passions into a dissertation.
