Our Guests

Dr. Nouha Dziri is an AI research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2). Her research investigates a wide variety of problems across NLP and AI including building state-of-the-art language models and understanding their limits and inner workings. She also works on AI safety to ensure the responsible deployment of LLMs while enhancing their reasoning capabilities. Prior to Ai2, she worked at Google DeepMind and Microsoft Research. She earned her PhD from the University of Alberta and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute. Her work has been published in top-tier AI venues including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, TACL, ACL, NAACL and EMNLP, and featured in TechCrunch, LeMonde, The Economist, Science News and QuantaMagazine.

Dr. Amanda Cercas Curry is a researcher at CENTAI Institute, where she is working on applied NLP, fairness and evaluation. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Feminism with the aim of building more just NLP systems. She is particularly interested in ethics, with a strong influence from feminism. Previously she was a postdoctoral researcher at MilaNLP in Bocconi University. She completed her PhD at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. She also co-hosts a podcast where she discusses all things tech ethics, called Let's Chat Ethics.

Aparna Balagopalan is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at MIT. Her research broadly focuses on developing fair, interpretable, and robust models by carefully re-evaluating and surfacing assumptions in machine learning-based measurements in socially-relevant contexts. Aparna has held research intern positions at the Stanford RegLab, the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, the Technische Universität, Dresden as a DAAD-WISE scholar, and at the Philips Innovation Campus, Bengaluru in the healthcare R&D team.