Nikita Soni

Nikita Soni is an incoming postdoctoral fellow in the DigiMind Lab. She has 16 peer-reviewed publications spanning ACL, npj digital medicine, JPSP, WASSA, and CLPsych. She also led the workshop Human-Centered Large Language Modeling (co-founded with the 1st edition at ACL 2024), and she’s leading a SemEval-2026 shared task on Predicting Variation in Emotional Affect (at ACL/EMNLP 2026). Her research focuses on integrating the author’s context into language modeling to build human-context-aware models that can be useful in multiple domains, such as mental health.