Shiva Upadhye

My last name is pronounced oo (as in root) - pa - the - ye (IPA: /’upaðje/, though technically it’s /’upadʰje/)

I am a third-year PhD student in the Language Processing Group at the University of California, Irvine, where I am advised by Dr. Richard Futrell.

Broadly speaking, I am interested in investigating the role of domain-general cognitive mechanisms like control, planning, and monitoring in incremental language production. My research leverages theories from psycholinguistics, data from naturalistic corpora and typing-based experiments, and insights from large language models.

Before coming to UC Irvine, I earned my Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science with an emphasis in Machine Learning and Neural Computation and a minor in Math from UC San Diego, where I worked on investigating implicit discourse structure knowledge in neural language models.