Currently working on understanding how biases perpetuate and reinforce in (large) vision-language models.
Education
A fourth-year Ph.D. student, majoring in Computer Science at George Mason University. Advised by Prof. Ziwei Zhu and Prof. Antonios Anastasopoulos. Also advised by Prof. Aylin Caliskan at the University of Washington.
Background
An NLP Researcher! Specializes in sociocultural biases, ethics, and fairness in multimodal and multilingual NLP. Currently working towards understanding how biases perpetuate and reinforce in (large) vision-language models, and exploring ways to mitigate these. Draws on concepts from cognitive sciences to add depth and perspective to his research.