This is Ashima, a PhD student at UCLA CS advised by Prof. Saadia Gabriel.

My research agenda centers on building equitable and socially responsible AI. As humans interact with AI systems, it is imperative to ensure that these models are safe, inclusive and fair. My research achieves this by focusing on a) fair detection of toxicity and harmful behaviors and b) studying misinformation in LLMs.

Awards
✨ UCLA Computer Science Fellowship 2024
✨ Google Deepmind Scholarship 2021-2023 (UCLA MSCS)
✨ Mitacs Globalink Research 2019

News

🍄 November 2024 I will be in San Diego at SoCAL NLP 2024!

🍄 November 2024 I will present QUDSELECT at ✨EMNLP 2024✨ in Miami 11 Nov - 17 Nov!

🍄 October 2024 UCLA Initiative to Study Hate supports our work on hate speech detection through their Research Innovation Fund!

🍄 October 2024 Organizing the UCLA NLP Seminar Series!

🍄 September 2024 QUDSELECT is accepted at ✨EMNLP 2024✨! I will be in Miami, Florida 11 Nov - 17 Nov, 2024. Checkout publications from my peers - Misinformation Interventions by LLMs, LLMs for Mental Health Support, Knowledge Transfer for Fact Verfication !!

🍄 September 2024 Joining MARS Lab with Genglin Liu, Salman Rahman and Sheriff Issaka.

Service

• Reviewer: ICLR Tiny Papers 2024, SoCal NLP Symposium 2023, Neurips D&B 2024