Jenna Russell

Welcome! I’m Jenna, a second-year Computer Science PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, where I am advised by Professor Mohit Iyyer. Prior to UMD, I spent a semester as a PhD student at University of Massachusetts Amherst, where I was also advised by Professor Iyyer. My current research interests include automatic text detection, understanding the differences in lexical patterns between LLM-generated and human-written text, and how humans can reliably use LLM generated texts.

Prior to joining UMass, I was a data scientist for Bank of America, doing applied research for Erica Conversational AI. I completed my B.S. at Cornell University, majoring in Statistics and Information Science, and grew up in nearby Rochester, New York.

Outside of my PhD, I spend my time lifting, running, and reading. I usually read somewhere between 70-100 books a year. Check out my Goodreads! I also have a cat named Boo.