Orion Weller
Undergraduate at Brigham Young University

I’m an undergraduate senior at Brigham Young University studying computer science and statistics. I am broadly interested in natural language processing and machine learning. I am currently funded by the Goldwater Scholarship.
I’ve had the privilege to work with several professors during my undergraduate experience: Prof. Kevin Seppi on natural language understanding and meta-learning, with Prof. Nancy Fulda doing natural language generation and with Prof. Quinn Snell doing computational health research into suicide prevention.
I interned with the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) for the first part of 2020, where I worked on robust NLP and analyzed transfer learning. I was advised by Matt Gardner and Sameer Singh and worked with many other great researchers. I then spent the summer working with Apple’s AI/ML division, researching machine translation with Matthias Sperber.
If you’re interested in getting in contact with me, please email me at {last_name}{first_name}@gmail.com.
news
Mar 10, 2021 | Our paper “Exploring the Relationship Between Algorithm Performance, Vocabulary, and Run-Time in Text Classification” was accepted at NAACL 2021! |
Jan 12, 2021 | My paper with Apple AI/ML, “Streaming Joint Speech Translation and Transcription” has been accepted for publication at EACL 2021! |
Dec 15, 2020 | I was awarded the 2021 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award! |
Sep 15, 2020 | My paper with AI2, Learning From Task Descriptions was accepted to EMNLP 2020! |
Apr 4, 2020 | Our paper “You Don’t Have Time to Read This: an Exploration of Document Level Reading Time Prediction” has been accepted to ACL 2020! |