Experience

Applied AI/ML Engineer Intern

May – Aug 2026

Incoming Summer 2026.

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sep 2025 – Present

Semantic-Phonemic Distance.

AI Engineer Intern

Sep – Dec 2025

Worked on AI agents for call centres on the AI Delivery Team. Contributed to all stages of agent delivery, including model design, build, finetuning, and deployment infrastructure.

NLP and Computational Linguistics Research Intern

Jan – Apr 2025

Researched the NLU of Germanic languages exhibited by LLMs, addressing morphology, syntax, and semantics as concepts for evaluation.

System Administrator Intern

May – Aug 2024

Automated key processes to improve SLA response time, developed and maintained PowerShell scripts for Azure Active Directory, and lead the company-wide Windows 11 deployment.

Publications

Revisiting the Sound-Meaning Systematicity: A Fine-Grained Computational Analysis

Xiaoxi Luo, Abeer Kashar, Yuxuan Li, Xiaoning Wang, Freda Shi
Submitted to Computational Linguistics

If I Could Turn Back Time: Temporal Reframing as a Historical Reasoning Task for LLMs

Lars Bungum, Charles Yijia Huang, Abeer Kashar
NLDB 2026

Global PIQA: Evaluating Physical Commonsense Reasoning Across 100+ Languages and Cultures

Tyler A. Chang, Catherine Arnett, Abeer Kashar, et al.
EMNLP Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL) Workshop 2025