cv

A pdf version of my CV can be downloaded here.

Education

• Ph.D., Information Science, University of Washington, In Progress
• M.S., Information Science, University of Washington, 2024
• M.S., Computer Science, The George Washington University, 2021
• M.A., English Literature, Georgetown University, 2014
• B.A., English Literature, University of Maryland, 2012

Invited Talks

• Robert Wolfe and Aylin Caliskan. Quantifying Biases and Societal Defaults in Word Embeddings and Language-Vision AI. AI Metrology Colloquium Series. National Institute of Standards and Technology. August 2022.
• Robert Wolfe. Overview of Research in Language-and-Image AI, with Focus on Evidence for Hypodescent in Visual Semantic AI. Language as a Window into Human Minds. The Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems. June 2022.

Grants and Awards

• UW iSchool Strategic Research Initiative Award: Awarded $15,000 grant co-written with PI Dr. Bill Howe, entitled Laboratory-Scale AI. Proposes empirical validation of domain-specific, instruction-tuned open models for their competitiveness with large, general, proprietary models like GPT-4. December 2023. Research published at ACM FAccT 2024.
• Google Research: Awarded $60,000 grant co-written with PI Dr. Alexis Hiniker, entitled Encouraging Nonviolent Communication in Online Messaging Platforms. Proposes user-centered design of AI-driven technologies for promoting empathy and nonviolence. April 2023. Research under submission.

Press Coverage

• Business Insider, 2023/04/25: Stable Diffusion and DALL-E display bias when prompted for artwork of ‘African workers’ versus ‘European workers’. By Thomas Maxwell. Refers to Markedness in Visual Semantic AI.
• The Intercept, 2023/04/22: AI Art Sites Censor Prompts About Abortion. By Debbie Nathan. Refers to Gender Bias in Word Embeddings.
• Insider, 2023/01/16: ChatGPT could be used for good, but like many other AI models, it’s rife with racist and discriminatory bias. By Hannah Getahun. Refers to Evidence for Hypodescent in Visual Semantic AI.
• MIT Tech Review, 2022/12/12: The viral AI avatar app Lensa undressed me – without my consent. By Melissa Heikkila. Refers to Markedness in Visual Semantic AI.

Academic Service

• AIES, 2024, Program Committee
• AAAI, 2024, Program Committee
• ACL Rolling Review, 2024, Reviewer
• NeurIPS, 2024, Reviewer
• AAAI, 2023, Program Committee
• NeurIPS, 2023, Reviewer
• Nature Humanities and Social Science, 2023, Reviewer
• ACM FAccT, 2022, Program Committee
• NeurIPS, 2022, Reviewer
• ICML, 2022, Reviewer
• AIES, 2022, Reviewer

Memberships

• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Community

• Student Organizing Committee for the University of Washington Responsible AI Systems and Experiences (RAISE), 2021
• Montgomery County, MD Trail Ranger, 2018-2021

Work Experience

• Deep Learning Research Intern, AKASA, Winter 2023
• Graduate Researcher, University of Washington, 2021-
• DisputeSoft, 2014-2021