2218 TMCB
Office Hours: By appointment, or as posted by my office door
Phone: 801-422-0434
nfulda@cs.byu.edu
Research: http://DRAGN.ai
Nancy Fulda the director of BYU's DRAGN Lab, a research group that studies machine learning, knowledge representation, and societal impacts of generative AI. She was a 1995 Howard W. Hunter scholar, a 2011 Jim Baen Memorial Award winner, and a team lead in Amazon's inaugural Alexa Prize Competition. In 2024 she was named one of Utah's top 100 AI professionals.
Recent publications from Dr. Fulda's research group include Out of One, Many: Using Language Models to Simulate Human Samples and A Tale of Two Cultures: Comparing Interpersonal Disclosure Norms on Twitter. Ongoing research in her lab is studying ways to make large-scale language models more usable and energy-efficient. Part of this involves developing machine learning algorithms that more closely resemble the neurochemical processes in biological brains. She is also studying the application of neural programming interfaces in the context of knowledge grounding and mechanistic interpretability.
In addition to her academic work, Dr. Fulda also writes science fiction. She has been nominated for the both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and has written on request for David Brin, TOR Books, and MIT’s Technology Review, as well as for the Dark Expanse space strategy game. She is the delighted mother of six children.
