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Affiliate Position

  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Washington Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

Specializations

  • AI Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
  • Societal Impact of AI
  • Generative AI, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Multimodality

Research Areas

Biography

Aylin Caliskan is an Assistant Professor in the Information School and holds an adjunct appointment in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington where she co-directs the UW Tech Policy Lab. Previously, Caliskan was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at George Washington University. Caliskan studies and addresses the societal impact of artificial intelligence (AI) by developing methods and transparency enhancing approaches. Specifically, Caliskan's research focuses on empirical and technical AI ethics in natural language processing, multimodal machine learning, and human-AI collaboration. Caliskan's work was among the first to rigorously show that machine learning models trained on language corpora contain human-like biases. Her contributions to the impact of natural language processing on fairness and privacy have received best talk and best paper awards. Caliskan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Drexel University's College of Computing & Informatics and a Master of Science in Robotics from the University of Pennsylvania. Caliskan was a Postdoctoral Researcher and a Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. In 2021, Caliskan was appointed a Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution, housed in the Center for Technology Innovation. Her honors include recognition as a Rising Star in EECS at Stanford University, being named one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics, an IJCAI Early Career Spotlight, and the NSF CAREER Award.

Aylin will be admitting Ph.D. students who are highly self-motivated and experienced in natural language processing and multimodal machine learning.

Awards

  • NSF CAREER Award, 2024
  • 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics - Women in AI Ethics, 2023
  • IJCAI Early Career Spotlight - The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023
  • Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at the Center for Technology Innovation - Brookings Institution, 2021
  • Rising Star in EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) - Stanford University, 2017
  • Best Talk Award for A Story of Discrimination and Unfairness: Implicit Bias Embedded in Language Models - HotPETS, 2016
  • Teaching Assistant Excellence Award Nominee - Drexel University, 2015
  • Inaugural College of Computing & Informatics Day PhD Poster Award - Drexel University, 2014
  • Travel Award - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2014
  • Brocade Scholarship - Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2013
  • Executive Council Award - Upsilon Pi Epsilon, 2013
  • Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award - Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2012
  • International Honor Society in the Computing and Information Disciplines - Upsilon Pi Epsilon, 2012
  • Xerox Scholarship - Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2012

Publications and Contributions

  • Conference Paper
    BiasDora: Exploring Hidden Biased Associations in Vision-Language Models (2024)
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EMNLP 2024) Authors: Chahat Raj, Anjishnu Mukherjee, Aylin Caliskan, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Ziwei Zhu
  • Conference Paper
    Breaking Bias, Building Bridges: Evaluation and Mitigation of Social Biases in LLMs via Contact Hypothesis (2024)
    Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES 2024) Authors: Chahat Raj, Anjishnu Mukherjee, Aylin Caliskan, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Ziwei Zhu
  • Conference Paper
    ChatGPT as Research Scientist: Probing GPT’s Capabilities as a Research Librarian, Scientific Ethicist, Data Generator and Data Predictor (2024)
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS 2024) Authors: Steven Lehr, Aylin Caliskan, Suneragiri P. Liyanage, Mahzarin R. Banaji
  • Journal Article, Professional Journal
    Directionality and Representativeness are Differentiable Components of Stereotypes in Large Language Models (2024)
    PNAS Nexus, 3(11) Authors: Gandalf Nicolas, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Do Generative AI Models Output Harm while Representing Non-Western Cultures: Evidence from A Community-Centered Approach (2024)
    Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES 2024) Authors: Sourojit Ghosh, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Sanjana Gautam, Shomir Wilson, Aylin Caliskan
  • Policy Commentary
    Effective AI regulation requires understanding of general-purpose AI (2024)
    Brookings Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Kristian Lum
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Extracting intersectional stereotypes from embeddings: Developing and validating the Flexible Intersectional Stereotype Extraction procedure (2024)
    PNAS Nexus, 3(3) Authors: Tessa E S Charlesworth, Kshitish Ghate, Aylin Caliskan, Mahzarin Banaji
  • Conference Paper
    Gender, Race, and Intersectional Bias in Resume Screening via Language Model Retrieval (2024)
    Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES 2024) Authors: Kyra Wilson, Aylin Caliskan
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Generative AI for Science communication (2024)
    Nature Human Behavior, 8( ), pp. 625–627 Authors: Amanda Alvarez, Aylin Caliskan, M.J. Crockett, Shirley S. Ho, Lisa Messeri, Jevin West
  • Conference Paper
    Global Gallery: The Fine Art of Painting Culture Portraits through Multilingual Instruction Tuning (2024)
    Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers), pp. 6398–6415 Authors: Anjishnu Mukherjee, Aylin Caliskan, Ziwei Zhu, Antonios Anastasopoulos
  • Conference Poster
    Label-Efficient Group Robustness via Out-of-Distribution Concept Curation (2024)
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024) Authors: Yiwei Yang, Anthony Zhe Liu, Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan, William G Howe
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Safeguarding Human Values: Rethinking US Law for Generative AI's Societal Impacts (2024)
    AI and Ethics Authors: Inyoung Cheong, Aylin Caliskan, Tadayoshi Kohno
  • Conference Paper
    “I don’t see myself represented here at all”: User Experiences of Stable Diffusion Outputs Containing Representational Harms (2024)
    Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES 2024) Authors: Sourojit Ghosh, Nina Lutz, Aylin Caliskan
  • Invited IJCAI Early Career Spotlight Paper
    Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics (2023)
    The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) Author: Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Bias Against 93 Stigmatized Groups in Masked Language Models and Downstream Sentiment Classification Tasks (2023)
    The 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) Authors: Katelyn X. Mei, Sonia Fereidooni, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    ChatGPT Perpetuates Gender Bias in Machine Translation and Ignores Non-Gendered Pronouns: Findings across Bengali and Five other Low-Resource Languages (2023)
    AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES) Authors: Sourojit Ghosh, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Contrastive Language-Vision AI Models Pretrained on Web-Scraped Multimodal Data Exhibit Sexual Objectification Bias (2023)
    Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, pp. 1174–1185 Authors: Robert Wolfe, Yiwei Yang, William G Howe, Aylin Caliskan
  • Magazine/Trade Publication
    Demographic Stereotypes in Text-to-Image Generation (2023)
    Stanford HAI Policy Brief 2023 Authors: Federico Bianchi, Pratyusha Kalluri, Esin Durmus, Faisal Ladhak, Myra Cheng, Debora Nozza, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Dan Jurafsky, James Zou, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Easily Accessible Text-to-Image Generation Amplifies Demographic Stereotypes at Large Scale (2023)
    The 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) Authors: Federico Bianchi, Pratyusha Kalluri, Esin Durmus, Faisal Ladhak, Myra Cheng, Debora Nozza, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Dan Jurafsky, James Zou, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Extended Abstract
    Envisioning Legal Mitigations for LLM-based Intentional and Unintentional Harms (2023)
    Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning Workshop on Generative AI and Law (ICML GenLaw 2023) Authors: Inyoung Cheong, Aylin Caliskan, Tadayoshi Kohno
  • Conference Paper
    Evaluating Biased Attitude Associations of Language Models in an Intersectional Context (2023)
    AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES) Authors: Shiva Omrani Sabbaghi, Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Pre-trained Speech Processing Models Contain Human-Like Biases that Propagate to Speech Emotion Recognition (2023)
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pp. 8967–8989 Authors: Isaac Slaughter, Craig Greenberg, Reva Schwartz, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Poster
    Regularizing Model Gradients with Concepts to Improve Robustness to Spurious Correlations (2023)
    Fortieth International Conference on Machine Learning Workshop on Spurious Correlations, Invariance, and Stability (ICML SCIS 2023) Authors: Yiwei Yang, Anthony Zhe Liu, Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan, William G Howe
  • Conference Paper
    ‘Person’ == Light-skinned, Western Man, and Sexualization of Women of Color: Stereotypes in Stable Diffusion (2023)
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pp. 6971–6985 Authors: Sourojit Ghosh, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    American == White in Multimodal Language-and-Image AI (2022)
    AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES) Authors: Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan
  • Comments
    Comments to the Federal Trade Commission re: Commercial Surveillance ANPR, R111004 (2022)
    Federal Trade Commission 2022 Authors: Clara Berridge, Aylin Caliskan, Ryan Calo, Mary D. Fan, Alexis Hiniker, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner
  • Conference Paper
    Contrastive Visual Semantic Pretraining Magnifies the Semantics of Natural Language Representations (2022)
    60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022 Authors: Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Detecting Emerging Associations and Behaviors With Regional and Diachronic Word Embeddings (2022)
    16th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2022) Authors: Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Evidence for Hypodescent in Visual Semantic AI (2022)
    ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), 2022 Authors: Robert Wolfe, Mahzarin Bahaji, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Gender Bias in Word Embeddings: A Comprehensive Analysis of Frequency, Syntax, and Semantics (2022)
    AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES) Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Pimparkar Parth Ajay, Tessa Charlesworth, Robert Wolfe, Mahzarin R Banaji
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Historical Representations of Social Groups Across 200 Years of Word Embeddings from Google Books (2022)
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS 2022) Authors: Tessa Charlesworth, Aylin Caliskan, Mahzarin R Banaji
  • Conference Paper
    Learning to Behave: Improving Covert Channel Security with Behavior-Based Design (2022)
    The 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2022 Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Ryan Wails, Andrew Stange, Samantha Troper, Roger Dingledine, Rob Jansen, Micah Sherr
  • Policy piece
    Managing the risks of inevitably biased visual artificial intelligence systems (2022)
    The Brookings Institution 2022 Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Ryan Steed
  • Conference Paper
    Markedness in Visual Semantic AI (2022)
    ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), 2022 Authors: Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Measuring Gender Bias in Word Embeddings of Gendered Languages Requires Disentangling Grammatical Gender Signals (2022)
    AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES) Authors: Shiva Omrani Sabbaghi, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    VAST: The Valence-Assessing Semantics Test for Contextualizing Language Models (2022)
    Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022) Authors: Robert Wolfe, Aylin Caliskan
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    A Set of Maximally Distinct Facial Traits Learned by Machines is not Predictive of Appearance Bias in the Wild (2021)
    AI and Ethics Authors: Ryan Steed, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Automatically Characterizing Targeted Information Operations Through Biases Present in Discourse on Twitter (2021)
    IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) Authors: Autumn Toney, Ashkat Pandey, David Broniatowski, Wei Guo, Aylin Caliskan
  • Report
    Comments in Response to ‘A Proposal for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence’ from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2021)
    Draft NIST Special Publication 1270 Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Bernease Herman, Emily M. Bender
  • Comments with American Psychological Association (APA) in response to the The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Request for Information (RFI) on an Implementation Plan for a National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) (2021)
    Author: Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Detecting Emergent Intersectional Biases: Contextualized Word Embeddings Contain a Distribution of Human-like Biases (2021)
    AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES) Authors: Wei Guo, Aylin Caliskan
  • Report
    Detecting and mitigating bias in natural language processing (2021)
    The Brookings Institution Author: Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Disparate Impact of Artificial Intelligence Bias in Ridehailing Economy’s Price Discrimination Algorithms (2021)
    AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES) Authors: Akshat Pandey, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Image Representations Learned With Unsupervised Pre-Training Contain Human-like Biases (2021)
    ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT) Authors: Ryan Steed, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Low Frequency Names Exhibit Bias and Overfitting in Contextualizing Language Models (2021)
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Authors: Robert Wolfe , Aylin Caliskan
  • Book, Chapter in Non-Scholarly Book-New
    Social Biases in Word Embeddings and Their Relation to Human Cognition (2021)
    The Atlas of Language Analysis in Psychology Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Molly Lewis Editors: Morteza Deghani, Ryan Boyd
  • Conference Paper
    ValNorm Quantifies Semantics to Reveal Consistent Valence Biases Across Languages and Over Centuries (2021)
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Authors: Autumn Toney-Wails, Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    If I Tap It, Will They Come? An Introductory Analysis of Fairness in a Large-Scale Ride Hailing Dataset (2020)
    Academy of Marketing Science Annual Conference (AMS) Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Begum Kaplan
  • Docket
    Comments in response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology Request for Information on Developing a Federal AI Standards Engagement Plan (2019)
    National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Authors: David Broniatowski, Aylin Caliskan, Valerie Reyna, Reva Schwartz
  • Conference Paper
    Git Blame Who?: Stylistic Authorship Attribution of Small, Incomplete Source Code Fragments (2019)
    Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) Authors: Edwin Dauber, Aylin Caliskan, Michael Weisman, Richard Harang, Gregory Schrearer, Frederica Nelson, Rachel Greenstadt
  • Conference Poster
    Privacy and Security via Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. (2018)
    Cybersecurity Retreat, Princeton University Author: Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Stylistic authorship attribution of small, incomplete source code fragments Authors. (2018)
    IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Authors: Edwin Dauber, Aylin Caliskan, Richard Harang, Rachel Greenstadt
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Stylometry of Author-Specific and Country-Specific Style Features in JavaScript. (2018)
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) Authors: Dennis Rollke, Aviel J. Stein, Edwin Daub, Mosfiqur Rahman, Michael J. Weisman, Gregory G. Shearer, Frederica Nelson, Aylin Caliskan, Richard Harang, Rachel Greenstadt
  • Conference Paper
    When Coding Style Survives Compilation: De-anonymizing Programmers from Executable Binaries (2018)
    Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Fabian Yamaguchi, Edwin Dauber, Richard Harang, Konrad Rieck, Arvind Narayanan
  • Journal Article, Academic Journal
    Semantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases (2017)
    Science Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Joanna J. Bryson, Arvind Narayanan
  • Conference Paper
    A Story of Discrimination and Unfairness (2016)
    Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs) Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Joanna J. Bryson, Arvind Narayanan
  • Conference Paper
    De-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry (2015)
    USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security) Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Richard Harang, Andrew Liu, Fabian Yamaguchi, Arvind Narayanan, Clare Voss, Rachel Greenstadt
  • Conference Paper
    How do we decide how much to reveal? (Hint: Our privacy behavior might be socially constructed.) (2015)
    Special Issue on Security, Privacy, and Human Behavior, ACM Computers & Society Author: Aylin Caliskan
  • Conference Paper
    Doppelgänger Finder: Taking Stylometry To The Underground (2014)
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Authors: Sadia Afroz, Aylin Caliskan, Ariel Stolerman, Rachel Greenstadt, Damon McCoy
  • Conference Workshop Paper
    Privacy Detective: Detecting Private Information and Collective Privacy Behavior in a Large Social Network (2014)
    Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES) Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Jonathan Walsh, Rachel Greenstadt
  • Conference Workshop Paper
    Approaches to Adversarial Drift (2013)
    ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec) Authors: Alex Kantchelian, Sadia Afroz, Ling Huang, Aylin Caliskan, Brad Miller, Michael Carl Tschantz, Anthony Joseph, J. D. Tygar
  • Conference Workshop Paper
    From Language to Family and Back: Native Language and Language Family Identification from English Text (2013)
    Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop (NAACL-SRW) Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Rachel Greenstadt
  • Conference Workshop Paper
    How Privacy Flaws Affect Consumer Perception (2013)
    3rd Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust (STAST) Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Jordan Santell, Aaron Chapin, Rachel Greenstadt
  • Conference Paper
    Translate once, translate twice, translate thrice and attribute: Identifying authors and machine translation tools in translated text (2012)
    IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC) Authors: Aylin Caliskan, Rachel Greenstadt
  • Conference Paper
    Use Fewer Instances of the Letter “i”: Toward Writing Style Anonymization (2012)
    Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) Authors: Andrew McDonald, Sadia Afroz, Aylin Caliskan, Ariel Stolerman, Rachel Greenstadt
  • Conference Poster
    ENVOY: Exploration and Navigation Vehicle for geolOgY (2011)
    University of Pennsylvania’s Entry in NASA/NIA RASC-AL Space Exploration Competition - Innovation in robotics to operate on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Authors: Arunkumar Byravan, Aylin Caliskan, Jonas Cleveland, Daniel Gilles, Jaimeen Kapadia, , Theparit Peerasathien, Bharath Sankaran, Alex Tozzo

Presentations

  • Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics (2024)
    2024 School of Medicine Leadership Retreat, University of California San Francisco - San Francisco, California
  • Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics (2024)
    UCSF School of Medicine Leadership Retreat - San Francisco, California
  • Bias and Fairness in Artificial Intelligence (2024)
    Howard University Virtual Applied Data Science Training Institute (VADSTI) - Washington, DC
  • Bias and Fairness in Artificial Intelligence (2024)
    VADSTI Program at Howard University - Washington, DC
  • Bias In, Bias Out: Propagation of Representational Social Group Bias to Zero-Shot Tasks in Vision-Language Models (2024)
    Faculty Lunch Lightning Talk, Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering - Seattle, WA
  • Gender, Data, and Equity: Expert Conversations (2024)
    Gender Equity Unit of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health - Virtual
  • Transparency in AI Ethics (2024)
    AAAI Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data (AAAI AIBSD Workshop) - Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Transparency in AI Ethics (2024)
    AAAI Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data (AIBSD) Workshop - Vancouver, Canada
  • Workshop on Fairness, Bias, and Factuality in LLMs (2024)
    Computer Science and Engineering Department, New York University - New York, NY
  • AI Bias Panel (2023)
    Seattle IT's 2023 Learning Conference - Seattle, Washington
  • Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics (2023)
    32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) - Macau, S.A.R.
  • Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics (2023)
    Artificial Intelligence in Health Professions Education Symposium, University of Washington School of Medicine - Seattle, Washington
  • Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics (2023)
    AI Safety Seminar, Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
  • Generative AI Panel with APEC Senior Officials (2023)
    Pacific Economic Cooperation Council's (PECC) 30th General Meeting: Achieving a Sustainable and Inclusive Asia-Pacific through Innovation - Seattle, Washington
  • Implicit Machine Cognition (2023)
    The Society for Personality and Social Psychology Constellation Award Symposium for Honoree Mahzarin Banaji, Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University - Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Politics of AI (2023)
    University of Washington Political Science Seminar - Seattle, Washington
  • Special Session on Assessing and Mitigating AI Bias in Speech Processing Systems (2023)
    INTERSPEECH 2023 - Dublin, Ireland
  • Special Session on Assessing and Mitigating AI Bias in Speech Processing Systems (2023)
    INTERSPEECH 2023 - Dublin, Ireland
  • AI + Society & Health Panel Moderator (2022)
    AI@UW - Seattle, WA
  • Briefing on Understanding and Addressing Racial Bias in Facial Recognition (2022)
    The National Academy of Sciences - Washington, DC
  • Gender Bias in Word Embeddings (2022)
    Santa Fe Institute Conference: Language as a Window into Mind and Society - Santa Fe, NM
  • Gender Bias in Word Embeddings (2022)
    University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
  • Language as a Window into Mind and Society (2022)
    Santa Fe Institute - Santa Fe, NM
  • Quantifying Biases and Societal Defaults in Word Embeddings and Language-Vision AI (2022)
    The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Artificial Intelligence Measurement and Evaluation Colloquia - Virtual
  • Sexual Objectification of Women and Girls in Implicit Machine Cognition (2022)
    Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
  • Transparency in Algorithmic Bias (2022)
    Santa Fe Institute Workshop: Can Algorithms Bend the Arc Toward Justice? - Santa Fe, NM
  • Artificial Intelligence for Social Good: When Machines Learn Human-like Biases from Data (2021)
    Harvard University, University of Chicago, University of Washington, Ninth Circuit’s Fairness Committee - Zoom
  • Workshop on AI on Artificial Intelligence in Information Research and Practice (2021)
    ASIS&T 2021 - Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Algorithmic Measures of Language Mirror Human Biases (2020)
    Georgetown University - Washington, DC
  • Algorithmic Measures of Language Mirror Human Biases and Widely Shared Associations (2020)
    Santa Fe Institute - Santa Fe, NM
  • Bias and AI Ethics (2020)
    DefCon28 AI Village - Virtual
  • Bias in AI (2020)
    NIST AI Workshop - Virtual
  • Bias in AI and Digital Humanities (2020)
    University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
  • Gender Breakthrough (2020)
    AI for Good Global Summit - Geneva, Switzerland
  • Gender Equity (2020)
    AI for Good Global Summit - Geneva, Switzerland
  • Implications of Biased AI on Democracy, Equity, and Justice (2020)
    COLING Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Internet Freedom - Virtual
  • Promises and Pitfalls of Big Data Approaches to Intersectional Equity in STEM (2020)
    NSF Workshop - NSF Workshop
  • AI for Social Good, Bias and Ethics Panel (2019)
    WeCNLP Summit at Facebook - Menlo Park, CA
  • Algorithmic Measures of Language Mirror Human Biases (2019)
    Symposium on Computer-Resident Language and Naturalistic Conversation as Windows Into Social Cognition - Santa Fe, NM
  • Algorithmic Mirrors of Human Biases (2019)
    University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
  • Algorithmic Mirrors of Human Biases (2019)
    Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, Virginia
  • Algorithmic Mirrors of Society (2019)
    University of Maryland - College Park, Maryland
  • Bias in AI (2019)
    Social Science Foo Camp at Facebook - Menlo Park, CA
  • Hands-on Tutorial: AI Fairness 360 (2019)
    ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAT*) - Atlanta, GA
  • Human-like Bias in Machine Intelligence (2019)
    SEH WOW Talk, George Washington University - Washington, D.C.
  • Monitoring Hate Speech in the US Media (2019)
    Workshop on Defining, Monitoring and Countering Hate Speech, George Washington University, School of Media and Public Affairs - Washington, D.C.
  • Neural Networks for NLP (2019)
    George Washington University - Washington, D.C.
  • NSF Workshop: Fairness, Ethics, Accountability, and Transparency (FEAT) (2019)
    NSF Workshop - Atlanta, GA
  • Tutorial on Distributional Semantics via Word Embeddings (2019)
    Department of Psychology, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA
  • AI & Equity (2018)
    MIT Media Lab - Cambridge, MA
  • Bias in Machine Learning (2018)
    ACM & Women in Computer Science at GWU - Washington D.C.
  • De-anonymizing Programmers from Source Code and Binaries (2018)
    DEFCON - Las Vegas, NV
  • The Great Power of AI: Algorithmic Mirrors of Individuals and Society (2018)
    Brown University, Duke University, ETH Zurich, George Washington University, Tufts University, University of Maryland, University of Virginia, and Yale University - Brown University, Duke University, ETH Zurich, George Washington University, Tufts University, University of Maryland, University of Virginia, and Yale University
  • The Great Power of AI: Algorithmic Mirrors of Society (2018)
    DEFCON - Las Vegas, NV
  • Beyond Big Data: What Can We Learn from AI Models? (2017)
    AISec - CCS Workshop - Dallas, TX
  • A Story of Discrimination and Unfairness: Implicit Bias Embedded in Language Models (2016)
    HotPETS 2016 - PETS - Darmstadt, Germany
  • De-anonymizing Programmers and Code Stylometry - Large Scale Authorship Attribution from Source Code and Executable Binaries of Compiled Code (2016)
    Princeton University CITP Luncheon Speaker Series - Princeton, NJ
  • Natural Language Processing and Privacy: A Double Edged Sword (2016)
    Infer - PETS Workshop - Infer - PETS Workshop
  • Code Stylometry and Programmer De-anonymization (2015)
    University of Göttingen - Göttingen, Germany
  • De-anonymizing Programmers (2015)
    32C3 - Chaos Communication Congress - Hamburg, Germany
  • De-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry (2015)
    Cornell Systems Lunch - Ithaca, NY
  • Support Vector Machines, Kernel Methods, Random Forests, and Feature Projection (2015)
    CS613-Machine Learning (Drexel University) - Philadelphia, PA
  • Security Review of Digital Privacy and the Underground: Miscreant Activity in the Internet Guest Lecture (2014)
    CS475-Computer and Network Security (Drexel University) - Philadelphia, PA
  • Source Code and Cross-Domain Stylometry (2014)
    31st Chaos Communication Congress - Hamburg, Germany
  • Stylometry and Online Underground Markets (2012)
    29th Chaos Communication Congress - Hamburg, Germany
  • Quantifying the Translator Effect: Identifying authors and machine translation tools in translated text (2011)
    Girl Geek Dinners Philly - Philadelphia, PA