Terra Blevins
(she/her)
Assistant Professor
Research interests
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
- Natural language processing and information retrieval
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, University of Washington
- MS in Computer Science, University of Washington
- BA in Computer Science, Columbia University
Biography
Terra Blevins is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
There are two main thrusts to Blevins’ work: answering fundamental questions about the intersections of language and computation — such as whether models learn and use language in the same way humans do — and using those insights to build better human-language technologies. She hopes to extend recent improvements in English-language models to more of the world's languages, and to offer insights into how AI and natural languages work. In the future, she wants to explore how interactions with chatbots shape the language humans use.
Before joining Khoury College in 2025, Blevins worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna and as a visiting researcher in Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team. She was honored with the EECS Rising Star award in 2023 and her work has appeared in such conferences as ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, NAACL, and EACL.
In addition to her role at Khoury College, Blevins serves as the co-workshop officer for the Association for Computational Linguistics. She enjoys mentoring students at all stages of their academic careers and looks forward to teaching courses in multilingual language modeling and natural language processing.
