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

I actively collaborate with Prof. Nanyun Peng, Prof. Kai-Wei Chang and Prof. Tom Hartvigsen. Additionally, I work with datacomp for reasoning data curation with Prof. Ludwig Schmidt.

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.

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

News

🍄 June 2025 The preprint for my first phd paper ModelCitizens: Representing Community Voices in Online Safety!

🍄 June 2025 OpenThoughts preprint is out! We release the OpenThinker-7B, the new SOTA open-data 7B reasoning model!

🍄 June 2025 AI Debate Aids Assessment of Controversial Claims preprint is out!

🍄 May 2025 Joint Preference Optimization got accepted to ACL Findings 2025!

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Service

• Reviewer: ICLR Tiny Papers 2024, SoCal NLP Symposium 2023, Neurips D&B 2024, COLM 2024, COLM 2025, ACL May ARR 2025
  
• Organizer: UCLA NLP Seminar Series