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, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, 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 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 machine learning's impact on fairness and privacy received the 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, 2024-2024
- 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
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Journal Article, Professional Journal
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Policy CommentaryEffective AI regulation requires understanding of general-purpose AI (2024)Brookings
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Journal Article, Academic JournalExtracting intersectional stereotypes from embeddings: Developing and validating the Flexible Intersectional Stereotype Extraction procedure (2024)PNAS Nexus, 3(3)
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Conference PaperGlobal 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
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Conference PosterLabel-Efficient Group Robustness via Out-of-Distribution Concept Curation (2024)Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024)
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Journal Article, Academic JournalSafeguarding Human Values: Rethinking US Law for Generative AI's Societal Impacts (2024)AI and Ethics
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Journal Article, Academic JournalScience communication with generative AI (2024)Nature Human Behavior, 8(Unknown Issue), pp. 625–627
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Journal Article, Academic Journal“Directionality and Representativeness are Differentiable Components of Stereotypes in Large Language Models (2024)PNAS Nexus, 3(11)
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Invited IJCAI Early Career Spotlight PaperArtificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics (2023)The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
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Conference PaperBias 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)
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Conference PaperChatGPT 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)
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Conference PaperContrastive 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
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Magazine/Trade PublicationDemographic Stereotypes in Text-to-Image Generation (2023)Stanford HAI Policy Brief 2023
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Conference PaperEasily Accessible Text-to-Image Generation Amplifies Demographic Stereotypes at Large Scale (2023)The 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT)
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Conference Extended AbstractEnvisioning 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)
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Conference PaperEvaluating Biased Attitude Associations of Language Models in an Intersectional Context (2023)AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES)
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Conference PaperPre-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
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Conference PosterRegularizing 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)
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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
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Conference PaperAmerican == White in Multimodal Language-and-Image AI (2022)AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES)
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CommentsComments to the Federal Trade Commission re: Commercial Surveillance ANPR, R111004 (2022)Federal Trade Commission 2022
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Conference PaperContrastive Visual Semantic Pretraining Magnifies the Semantics of Natural Language Representations (2022)60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022
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Conference PaperDetecting Emerging Associations and Behaviors With Regional and Diachronic Word Embeddings (2022)16th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2022)
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Conference PaperEvidence for Hypodescent in Visual Semantic AI (2022)ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), 2022
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Conference PaperGender Bias in Word Embeddings: A Comprehensive Analysis of Frequency, Syntax, and Semantics (2022)AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES)
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Journal Article, Academic JournalHistorical Representations of Social Groups Across 200 Years of Word Embeddings from Google Books (2022)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS 2022)
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Conference PaperLearning to Behave: Improving Covert Channel Security with Behavior-Based Design (2022)The 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2022
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Policy pieceManaging the risks of inevitably biased visual artificial intelligence systems (2022)The Brookings Institution 2022
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Conference PaperMarkedness in Visual Semantic AI (2022)ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT), 2022
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Conference PaperMeasuring Gender Bias in Word Embeddings of Gendered Languages Requires Disentangling Grammatical Gender Signals (2022)AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES)
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Conference PaperVAST: The Valence-Assessing Semantics Test for Contextualizing Language Models (2022)Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022)
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Journal Article, Academic JournalA Set of Maximally Distinct Facial Traits Learned by Machines is not Predictive of Appearance Bias in the Wild (2021)AI and Ethics
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Conference PaperAutomatically Characterizing Targeted Information Operations Through Biases Present in Discourse on Twitter (2021)IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)
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ReportComments 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
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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)
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Conference PaperDetecting Emergent Intersectional Biases: Contextualized Word Embeddings Contain a Distribution of Human-like Biases (2021)AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES)
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ReportDetecting and mitigating bias in natural language processing (2021)The Brookings Institution
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Conference PaperDisparate Impact of Artificial Intelligence Bias in Ridehailing Economy’s Price Discrimination Algorithms (2021)AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AAAI/ACM AIES)
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Conference PaperImage Representations Learned With Unsupervised Pre-Training Contain Human-like Biases (2021)ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAccT)
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Conference PaperLow Frequency Names Exhibit Bias and Overfitting in Contextualizing Language Models (2021)Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
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Book, Chapter in Non-Scholarly Book-NewSocial Biases in Word Embeddings and Their Relation to Human Cognition (2021)The Atlas of Language Analysis in Psychology Editors: Morteza Deghani, Ryan Boyd
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Conference PaperValNorm Quantifies Semantics to Reveal Consistent Valence Biases Across Languages and Over Centuries (2021)Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
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Conference PaperIf 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)
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DocketComments 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)
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Conference PaperGit Blame Who?: Stylistic Authorship Attribution of Small, Incomplete Source Code Fragments (2019)Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
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Conference PosterPrivacy and Security via Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. (2018)Cybersecurity Retreat, Princeton University
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Conference PaperStylistic authorship attribution of small, incomplete source code fragments Authors. (2018)IEEE/ACM 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion
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Journal Article, Academic JournalStylometry of Author-Specific and Country-Specific Style Features in JavaScript. (2018)Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
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Conference PaperWhen Coding Style Survives Compilation: De-anonymizing Programmers from Executable Binaries (2018)Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
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Journal Article, Academic JournalSemantics derived automatically from language corpora contain human-like biases (2017)Science
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Conference PaperA Story of Discrimination and Unfairness (2016)Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (HotPETs)
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Conference PaperDe-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry (2015)USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
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Conference PaperHow 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
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Conference PaperDoppelgänger Finder: Taking Stylometry To The Underground (2014)IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
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Conference Workshop PaperPrivacy Detective: Detecting Private Information and Collective Privacy Behavior in a Large Social Network (2014)Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES)
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Conference Workshop PaperApproaches to Adversarial Drift (2013)ACM Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Security (AISec)
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Conference Workshop PaperFrom 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)
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Conference Workshop PaperHow Privacy Flaws Affect Consumer Perception (2013)3rd Workshop on Socio-Technical Aspects in Security and Trust (STAST)
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Conference PaperTranslate once, translate twice, translate thrice and attribute: Identifying authors and machine translation tools in translated text (2012)IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC)
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Conference PaperUse Fewer Instances of the Letter “i”: Toward Writing Style Anonymization (2012)Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
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Conference PosterENVOY: 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.
Presentations
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AAAI Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data
(2024)
AAAI AIBSD Workshop - Vancouver, BC, Canada
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AI Bias
(2024)
VADSTI Program at Howard University - Washington, DC
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Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics
(2024)
UCSF School of Medicine Leadership Retreat - San Francisco, California
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Bias and Fairness in Artificial Intelligence
(2024)
Howard University Virtual Applied Data Science Training Institute (VADSTI) - Washington, DC
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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
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Gender, Data, and Equity: Expert Conversations
(2024)
Gender Equity Unit of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health - Virtual
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Invited Keynote
(2024)
2024 School of Medicine Leadership Retreat, University of California San Francisco - San Francisco, California
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Transparency in AI Ethics
(2024)
AAAI Artificial Intelligence with Biased or Scarce Data (AIBSD) Workshop - Vancouver, Canada
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AI Bias Panel
(2023)
Seattle IT's 2023 Learning Conference - Seattle, Washington
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Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics
(2023)
AI Safety Seminar, Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
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Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics
(2023)
Artificial Intelligence in Health Professions Education Symposium, University of Washington School of Medicine - Seattle, Washington
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Artificial Intelligence, Bias, and Ethics
(2023)
32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) - Macau, S.A.R.
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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
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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
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Politics of AI
(2023)
University of Washington Political Science Seminar - Seattle, Washington
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Special Session on Assessing and Mitigating AI Bias in Speech Processing Systems
(2023)
INTERSPEECH 2023 - Dublin, Ireland
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Special Session on Assessing and Mitigating AI Bias in Speech Processing Systems
(2023)
INTERSPEECH 2023 - Dublin, Ireland
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AI + Society & Health Panel Moderator
(2022)
AI@UW - Seattle, WA
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Briefing on Understanding and Addressing Racial Bias in Facial Recognition
(2022)
The National Academy of Sciences - Washington, DC
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Gender Bias in Word Embeddings
(2022)
University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
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Gender Bias in Word Embeddings
(2022)
Santa Fe Institute Conference: Language as a Window into Mind and Society - Santa Fe, NM
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Language as a Window into Mind and Society
(2022)
Santa Fe Institute - Santa Fe, NM
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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
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Sexual Objectification of Women and Girls in Implicit Machine Cognition
(2022)
Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
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Transparency in Algorithmic Bias
(2022)
Santa Fe Institute Workshop: Can Algorithms Bend the Arc Toward Justice? - Santa Fe, NM
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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
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Workshop on AI on Artificial Intelligence in Information Research and Practice
(2021)
ASIS&T 2021 - Salt Lake City, Utah
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Algorithmic Measures of Language Mirror Human Biases
(2020)
Georgetown University - Washington, DC
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Algorithmic Measures of Language Mirror Human Biases and Widely Shared Associations
(2020)
Santa Fe Institute - Santa Fe, NM
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Bias and AI Ethics
(2020)
DefCon28 AI Village - Virtual
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Bias in AI
(2020)
NIST AI Workshop - Virtual
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Bias in AI and Digital Humanities
(2020)
University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, PA
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Gender Breakthrough
(2020)
AI for Good Global Summit - Geneva, Switzerland
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Gender Equity
(2020)
AI for Good Global Summit - Geneva, Switzerland
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Implications of Biased AI on Democracy, Equity, and Justice
(2020)
COLING Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Internet Freedom - Virtual
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Promises and Pitfalls of Big Data Approaches to Intersectional Equity in STEM
(2020)
NSF Workshop - NSF Workshop
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AI for Social Good, Bias and Ethics Panel
(2019)
WeCNLP Summit at Facebook - Menlo Park, CA
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Algorithmic Measures of Language Mirror Human Biases
(2019)
Symposium on Computer-Resident Language and Naturalistic Conversation as Windows Into Social Cognition - Santa Fe, NM
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Algorithmic Mirrors of Human Biases
(2019)
Virginia Tech - Blacksburg, Virginia
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Algorithmic Mirrors of Human Biases
(2019)
University of Chicago - Chicago, IL
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Algorithmic Mirrors of Society
(2019)
University of Maryland - College Park, Maryland
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Bias in AI
(2019)
Social Science Foo Camp at Facebook - Menlo Park, CA
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Hands-on Tutorial: AI Fairness 360
(2019)
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (ACM FAT*) - Atlanta, GA
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Human-like Bias in Machine Intelligence
(2019)
SEH WOW Talk, George Washington University - Washington, D.C.
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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.
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Neural Networks for NLP
(2019)
George Washington University - Washington, D.C.
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NSF Workshop: Fairness, Ethics, Accountability, and Transparency (FEAT)
(2019)
NSF Workshop - Atlanta, GA
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Tutorial on Distributional Semantics via Word Embeddings
(2019)
Department of Psychology, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA
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AI & Equity
(2018)
MIT Media Lab - Cambridge, MA
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Bias in Machine Learning
(2018)
ACM & Women in Computer Science at GWU - Washington D.C.
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De-anonymizing Programmers from Source Code and Binaries
(2018)
DEFCON - Las Vegas, NV
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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
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The Great Power of AI: Algorithmic Mirrors of Society
(2018)
DEFCON - Las Vegas, NV
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Beyond Big Data: What Can We Learn from AI Models?
(2017)
AISec - CCS Workshop - Dallas, TX
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A Story of Discrimination and Unfairness: Implicit Bias Embedded in Language Models
(2016)
HotPETS 2016 - PETS - Darmstadt, Germany
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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
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Natural Language Processing and Privacy: A Double Edged Sword
(2016)
Infer - PETS Workshop - Infer - PETS Workshop
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Code Stylometry and Programmer De-anonymization
(2015)
University of Göttingen - Göttingen, Germany
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De-anonymizing Programmers
(2015)
32C3 - Chaos Communication Congress - Hamburg, Germany
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De-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry
(2015)
Cornell Systems Lunch - Ithaca, NY
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Support Vector Machines, Kernel Methods, Random Forests, and Feature Projection
(2015)
CS613-Machine Learning (Drexel University) - Philadelphia, PA
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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
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Source Code and Cross-Domain Stylometry
(2014)
31st Chaos Communication Congress - Hamburg, Germany
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Stylometry and Online Underground Markets
(2012)
29th Chaos Communication Congress - Hamburg, Germany
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Quantifying the Translator Effect: Identifying authors and machine translation tools in translated text
(2011)
Girl Geek Dinners Philly - Philadelphia, PA