Jenna Russell

Welcome! I’m Jenna, a first-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 fit in somewhere between 70-100 books a year, mostly through audiobooks. Check out my Goodreads, which I update pretty much daily. I also have a 13-year old cat named Boo.

news

Jan 26, 2025	I’ve published my first paper, People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text.
Jan 11, 2025	We’ve moved to the CLIP Lab at UMD College Park.
Oct 06, 2024	I’m attending COLM this week.
Sep 02, 2024	I started my PhD at UMass Amherst!

selected publications

arXiv

People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text

Jenna Russell, Marzena Karpinska, and Mohit Iyyer

2025

Bib PDF Code

@article{russell_humandetectors25,
  title = {People who frequently use ChatGPT for writing tasks are accurate and robust detectors of AI-generated text},
  author = {Russell, Jenna and Karpinska, Marzena and Iyyer, Mohit},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15654},
}

arXiv

One ruler to measure them all: Benchmarking multilingual long-context language models

Yekyung Kim, Jenna Russell, Marzena Karpinska, and 1 more author

2025

Bib PDF Code

@article{kim2025oneruler,
  title = {One ruler to measure them all: Benchmarking multilingual long-context language models},
  author = {Kim, Yekyung and Russell, Jenna and Karpinska, Marzena and Iyyer, Mohit},
  year = {2025},
  publisher = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01996},
}