About Me
I am currently on the academic job market for faculty positions in the 2024-2025 cycle!
Research Interests
My research is on Trustworthy Machine Learning, with a focus on debiasing large pretrained models using efficient and minimally invasive approaches that maintain downstream performance.
Bio
I’m a postdoctoral associate at MIT CSAIL in the Healthy ML lab, hosted by Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi. Prior to my postdoc, I earned my PhD at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), advised by Professor Rundensteiner and Professor Emmanuel Agu. At WPI I was part of DAISY Lab and the WASH Research Group.
Recent News
- Nov 24: I will be presenting my work on debiasing foundation models at Google’s Theory and Practice of Foundation Model Workshop.
- Oct 24: Invited to be the Senior Area Chair for the Models and Methods track at CHIl 24.
- Oct 24: First author paper on debiasing vision language models accepted @ NeurIPS 2024.
- Sep 24: Leading a SERC Group on Bias in Clinical LLMs @MIT.
- Aug 24: Coauthored paper on categorical knowledge editing published @ ACL 24.
- July 24: Coauthored paper on auditing VLMs for societal bias accepted @ AIES 24. Congrats to first author Kimia Hamidieh and collaborators Haoran Zhang, Thomas Hartvigsen and Marzyeh Ghassemi!
Misc
In my free time I enjoy visiting new places, making clothes, painting, 3D printing, and trying to keep my houseplants alive.