Hi, I am Raj!

Update: Starting September 2024, I will be at Stanford (with Prof Diyi Yang) as a visiting student working on using NLP for social good.

I am interested in building human-AI collaborative natural language processing models for social good. I am skilled in C++, Python, JAVA, Hadoop, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning algorithms, and Data Structures.

I want to pursue a Ph.D. program with a focus on understanding the human behavioral alignment of language models and their impact on social decision-making. During my Master’s program at Georgia Tech, I have been fortunate to work on a variety of projects that use language processing for the betterment of online mental health platforms. This has equipped me with a strong foundation of computational social science methods along with a well-rounded experience of working with popular language processing algorithms.

news

Aug 15, 2023	Happy to receive Georgia Tech President’s Fellowship Award 2023! This award is given to students who have excelled in scholarship and are pursuing doctoral degrees. Selection for this competitive award is based on multiple areas including but not limited to academic history, standardized test scores, and letters of recommendation. This recognition comes with a stipend of $5,500, per academic year, renewable up to 3 years.
May 5, 2023	Graduated with a Masters in CS from Georgia Tech!
Apr 15, 2023	Happy to receive The Marshall D. Williamson Fellowship Award 2023! This award will support the College Master’s program and be awarded to a well-rounded, second-year Master’s student who best embodies Marshall’s values of academic excellence and leadership (4 recipients – 1 each for Computer Science, Computational Science & Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, and Information Security).
Oct 14, 2022	Super happy that my paper “When FLUE Meets FLANG: Benchmarks and Large Pre-trained Language Model for Financial Domain” is accepted to appear at #emnlp2022 (Main) 🥳. Check out the models and the benchmark here https://salt-nlp.github.io/FLANG/.
Jul 15, 2022	My paper titled “Modeling Motivational Interviewing Strategies On Online Peer-to-Peer Counseling Platforms” is accepted in CSCW 2022!
Apr 15, 2022	Received the Donald V. Jackson Fellowship Award.

selected publications

Helping the Helper: Supporting Peer Counselors via AI-Empowered Practice and Feedback

Shang-Ling Hsu, Raj Sanjay Shah, Prathik Senthil, Zahra Ashktorab, and 3 more authors

2023

arXiv Bib PDF Slides

@misc{hsu2023helping,
  title = {Helping the Helper: Supporting Peer Counselors via AI-Empowered Practice and Feedback},
  author = {Hsu, Shang-Ling and Shah, Raj Sanjay and Senthil, Prathik and Ashktorab, Zahra and Dugan, Casey and Geyer, Werner and Yang, Diyi},
  year = {2023},
  eprint = {2305.08982},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.HC},
}

Numeric Magnitude Comparison Effects in Large Language Models

Raj Sanjay Shah, Vijay Marupudi, Reba Koenen, Khushi Bhardwaj, and 1 more author

2023

arXiv Bib PDF

@misc{shah2023numeric,
  title = {Numeric Magnitude Comparison Effects in Large Language Models},
  author = {Shah, Raj Sanjay and Marupudi, Vijay and Koenen, Reba and Bhardwaj, Khushi and Varma, Sashank},
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, Toronto, Canada},
  eprint = {2305.10782},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.AI},
}

When FLUE Meets FLANG: Benchmarks and Large Pretrained Language Model for Financial Domain

Raj Sanjay Shah, Kunal Chawla, Dheeraj Eidnani, Agam Shah, and 6 more authors

In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) 2022

arXiv Bib PDF

@inproceedings{EMNLP_raj,
  author = {Shah, Raj Sanjay and Chawla, Kunal and Eidnani, Dheeraj and Shah, Agam and Du, Wendi and Chava, Sudheer and Raman, Natraj and Smiley, Charese and Chen, Jiaao and Yang, Diyi},
  title = {When FLUE Meets FLANG: Benchmarks and Large Pretrained Language Model for Financial Domain},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
}

Modeling Motivational Interviewing Strategies On An Online Peer-to-Peer Counseling Platform

Raj Sanjay Shah, Faye Holt, Shirley Anugrah Hayati, Aastha Agarwal, and 3 more authors

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6 2022

arXiv Bib PDF

@article{MITI_CSCW_2022,
  author = {Shah, Raj Sanjay and Holt, Faye and Hayati, Shirley Anugrah and Agarwal, Aastha and Wang, Yi-Chia and Kraut, Robert and Yang, Diyi},
  title = { Modeling Motivational Interviewing Strategies On An Online Peer-to-Peer Counseling Platform },
  journal = { Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6 },
  year = {2022},
  url = {},
  doi = { 10.1145/3555640},
}

Metrics for Peer Counseling: Triangulating Success Outcomes for Online Therapy Platforms

Tony Wang, Haard K. Shah, Raj Sanjay Shah, Yi-Chia Wang, and 2 more authors

2023

Bib PDF

@article{metrics,
  author = {Wang, Tony and Shah, Haard K. and Shah, Raj Sanjay and Wang, Yi-Chia and Kraut, Robert E. and Yang, Diyi},
  title = {Metrics for Peer Counseling: Triangulating Success Outcomes for Online Therapy Platforms},
  year = {2023},
}