Imani Finkley

Imani Finkley

she/her

Humanities Scholar using ML for social and linguistic inquiry

Awards

2024-25 Baggett Fellowship

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The objective of the Baggett Fellowships program is to provide intensive research training for post-baccalaureate students who wish to pursue a research career in the scientific study of language. Fellows will be exposed to a range of methods and tools for studying human language in the context of a collaborative research environment. Fellows will be fully engaged in the scientific investigation of fundamental questions about the human language capacity: How is linguistic knowledge represented in the mind? What types of computation are involved?

Summa Cum Laude

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This award was for an outstanding undergraduate honors thesis and academic record as an undergraduate within the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University.

2024 Outstanding Researcher Award Honorable Mention

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Imani was selected for Honorable Mention of the 2024 Computing Research Association’s (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award (URA). This award commends recipients for their contributions to multiple research projects, several authored or coauthored multiple research papers, many presented their work at large-scale conferences, and others produced software artifacts that are now widely used. The nominee pool featured multiple nominations for students who successfully completed summer research or internship programs, and many students served their community as teaching assistants, tutors, and mentors.

2023 Joseph E. Connolly ‘72 Memorial Prize

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Throughout history and across the contemporary global sphere, religious practice, and ideology interweave themselves in the political and social fabric of human life. The Joseph E. Connolly ‘72 Memorial Prizes are awarded to undergraduates who have demonstrated exceptional scholarship at the intersection of religion and politics or society.

2022 Tapia Conference

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Imani was sponsored by the Cornell University Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science College of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to attend the 2022 CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference in Washington D.C. Imani was selected for this, in part, due to her community leadership as 2022 President of Underrepresented Minorities in Computing (URMC) at Cornell.

2021 Grace Hopper Conference

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Imani was sponsored by the Cornell University Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science College of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to virtually attend the 2021 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. Imani was selected for this, in part, due to her community leadership as Events Chair of Underrepresented Minorities in Computing (URMC) at Cornell.