Hello, I'm Lj V. Miranda!
I am a PhD Student at the University of Cambridge. Broadly, I explore how we can develop equitable language technologies through cheap, small, and specialized language models deployed to the edge, i.e., nearest to the communities who need these technologies the most.
I believe that good data is the foundation for building these models, especially when working with low-resource languages where data is scarce and quality matters more. I'm excited about techniques that involve creative (or in Tagalog, ma-diskarte) ways to extract high quality signals given these extreme constraints. That said, I’m always open to learning new approaches!
You can reach me through my main website / blog where you can also check out the research I published, play the games I made using Godot / Pico-8, and look at the photos I took using a GameBoy Camera.