2024: Awarded the Apple Scholars in AIML PhD Fellowship.
March 2023: Paper on 'effect of automated data cleaning on model fairness' accepted to IEEE ICDE'23 Special Track.
October 2022: Work on 'Fairness as Equal Opportunity' accepted for oral presentation at ACM EAAMO'22.
September 2022: 'Interactive Introduction to Causal Inference' accepted to VISxAI Workshop at IEEE VIS.
August 2022: Paper on 'Stability Auditing of Personality Prediction AI' accepted to the Fairness and Bias Special Edition of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal.
April 2021: Invited talk 'It's funny because it's true: confronting ML catechisms' at ICLR 2021’s 'Rethinking ML Papers' Workshop.
April 2021: 'Fairness and Friends' accepted as an exhibit at ICLR 2021’s 'Rethinking ML Papers' Workshop.
March 2021: Presented 'Fairness and Friends' tutorial at ACM FAccT 2021 with Julia Stoyanovich and Eleni Manis.
Research Experience
Summer 2024: Interned with Apple MLR in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Summer 2023: Co-facilitated the third offering of the public education course 'We Are AI' for NYU librarians and non-academic staff.
Summer 2022: Co-organized a 6-week summer research program with Ukrainian Catholic University under #ScienceForUkraine via R/AI.
May–June 2021: Launched the public-facing comic series 'We are AI' to accompany a public education course of the same name.
December 2020: Facilitated the MAIEI x RAIN-Africa workshop 'Perspectives on the future of Responsible AI in Africa'.
November 2020: Facilitated the 'Privacy in AI' Workshop by MAIEI and the AI4Good Lab.
Background
Engineer/Scientist by training and an Artist by nature.
Broadly interested in how technology shapes and is shaped by society.
Currently a fourth-year PhD student at NYU's Center for Data Science.
Supported by the Apple Scholars in AIML PhD fellowship.
Conducts fundamental interdisciplinary research on AI fairness and AI safety.
Creates scientific comics and artwork to make AI research accessible to both technical and non-technical audiences.