i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child" some reflections below:

Excited for the new year and to share that I will be joining the Wellesley College Computer Science department this Fall as an Assistant Professor! 🥳

Keenan Anderson—a 31-year-old high school teacher & father—stopped LA police for help after an accident. They instead cuffed him, pinned him, & tased him repeatedly as he begged them to stop. Keenan died of cardiac arrest from excessive tasing. His crime—asking police for help.

Please check out TurnSignl, an app founded by Black civil rights lawyers. It lets you to call a lawyer asap through voice activation when police pull you over. The lawyer manages & records the entire convo w/police & works to get you home safe. See here: m.turnsignl.com/get_app/NbAW

We (researchers at CU Boulder) are conducting a research study about social media platform migration. Right now we are looking for help *piloting* a survey about experiences with leaving (or choosing not to leave) Twitter and/or joining (or not joining) Mastodon... (1/2)

Successfully defended my thesis today with the support of my advisor Shaun Kane, my amazing committee, and loving friends and family. Onward!!

Excited to attend #FAccT23 next week and connect with new colleagues! I will be presenting on disability representation in LLMs, on behalf of myself and amazing co-authors Remi Denton, Robin N. Brewer, Ph.D., Shaun Kane, @sunipa17, [email protected], and @justaturbo. Please come check it out :)

So excited for this #FAccT2023 work on disability-centered perspectives of LLM’s by Vinitha Gadiraju Shaun Kane Sunipa Dev [email protected] @justaturbo Remi Denton Robin N. Brewer, Ph.D. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35…

I'm really proud of this work - investigating how generative models may negatively represent people with disabilities, and highlighting the importance of including PWD in model evaluations #FAccT2023

LLMs stereotypes #FAccT2023 An interesting study on harmful stereotypes perpetuated by LLMs toward the disability community. research.google/pubs/pub52358/ By Vinitha Gadiraju Remi Denton Robin N. Brewer, Ph.D. Shaun Kane @sunipa17 [email protected] @justaturbo

Thinking of my sister today. Harvard was a singular obsession with my mom during my childhood and it became my sister’s singular obsession throughout her short life. It became my own source of insecurity as a 2.8 GPA Asian (we exist) who sucked at math and standardized tests.

I’m looking for a Ph.D. research intern in Human-Centered NLP to come work at Apple MLR (Machine Learning Research team), in Cupertino, CA! ☀️ Application details in thread below! 🧵👇 [1/2]

So grateful to have received a Google Research Scholar Award, in collaboration with Alicia Boyd, PhD, for exploring disability representation in generative AI. Thank you @justaturbo for valuable feedback, and my students, Sneha and Wenhan, for their hard work on this project :)