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Education

Ph.D. in Information, University of Michigan

August 2022 – June 2027 (expected) · Ann Arbor, MI

Advised by Dallas Card
Selected classes: Causal Machine Learning, Methods in English, Sociological Theory, Networks, Information Studies

B.S. in Computer Science, University of Washington

September 2017 – March 2022 · Seattle, WA

Minors in English and Linguistics

Transition School, UW Robinson Center for Young Scholars

September 2016 – June 2017 · Seattle, WA

One year of intensive study in place of high school

Experience

Research Assistant, University of Washington

Fall 2021 – Winter 2022

Collaborated on a novel annotation rubric for image captioning and investigated the efficacy of different generation metrics
Supervisor: Jungo Kasai

REUSE Intern, Carnegie Mellon University

Summer 2021

Designed and implemented a software engineering-focused plugin for a browser-based behavioral science experiment framework
Supervisor: Joshua Sunshine

Software Engineering Intern, Tableau

Summer 2020 · Seattle, WA

Maintained a testing framework in Python and Java; built a performance testing framework for a browser tool

Teaching Assistant, University of Washington

Summer 2019 · Seattle, WA

Assisted a UW English instructor with an online class for matriculating students and gave personalized feedback on papers

Publications

Missing Context: A Review of Natural Language Processing for Archives Lavinia Dunagan, Jesse Johnston, and Dallas Card Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society, Special Issue on AI and Archives, 2026
Characterizing Religious Rhetoric in the U.S. Congressional Record Lavinia Dunagan and Dallas Card Computational Humanities Research (CHR 2025)
TIDEs: A Transgender and Nonbinary Community-Labeled Dataset and Model for Transphobia Identification in Digital Environments Francesca Lameiro, Lavinia Dunagan, Dallas Card, Eric Gilbert, and Oliver Haimson ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025)
You don’t need a personality test to know these models are unreliable: Assessing the Reliability of Large Language Models on Psychometric Instruments Bangzhao Shu, Lechen Zhang, Minje Choi, Lavinia Dunagan, Lajanugen Logeswaran, Moontae Lee, Dallas Card, and David Jurgens NAACL 2024
Exploring Linguistic Style Matching in Online Communities: The Role of Social Context and Conversation Dynamics Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, Hong Chen, Jason Yan, Kenan Alkiek, Jiaxin Pei, Agrima Seth, Lavinia Dunagan, Minje Choi, Benjamin Litterer, and David Jurgens Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) at ACL 2023
Bidimensional Leaderboards: Generate and Evaluate Language Hand in Hand Jungo Kasai, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Ronan Le Bras, Lavinia Dunagan, Jacob Morrison, Alexander Fabbri, Yejin Choi, and Noah A. Smith NAACL 2022
Transparent Human Evaluation for Image Captioning Jungo Kasai, Keisuke Sakaguchi, Lavinia Dunagan, Jacob Morrison, Ronan Le Bras, Yejin Choi, and Noah A. Smith NAACL 2022
Conducting Browser-Based User Studies in Software Engineering Lavinia Dunagan and Joshua Sunshine PLATEAU Workshop 2021

Presentations

Promises of (Platform) Permanence: How People Die on Legacy.com with Kevin Zheng Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) · Seattle, WA · September 2025
NLP in Archival Infrastructure with Jesse Johnston and Dallas Card Archives as Data · 2025
Religious Rhetoric in the U.S. Congressional Record with Dallas Card International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) · Philadelphia, PA · July 2024

Awards

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

2023 – 2027

Hilen Prize for outstanding undergraduate expository essay, University of Washington

June 2019

Dean’s List, University of Washington

2017 – 2021

Service

Reviewer, ACL

2024 – present

Q++, University of Washington

2019 – 2022

Organization supporting LGBTQ+ students and allies in the Allen School