Pranav Venkit, PhD

I’m beyond thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my PhD!!! 🎉 🥳 My thesis, "Society and Bias: Understanding Automated Prejudices in Sociotechnical NLP," explores the intersections of AI, bias, and society. Seeing my research all come together is so so rewarding!!😊

Im really excited to be presenting this work in Greece! 🏛️ As generative text models start reshaping how we search for information, understanding their societal impact is more important than ever. 🔎 If you’ll be at #ACMFAccT2025, let’s grab a coffee and chat! ☕️

Didn't realize that my citations had gone above 500! Oh wow! 🎆🙀 Kinda speechless by the attention my works have gotten recently. This speaks more of how ethical and sociotechnical NLP are gaining importance! So grateful for everyone in this field! Thank you! 😊 #NLProc #AI

Thank you @FAccTConference! Presenting my work here was extremely fun. Such a great place for people who conduct interdisciplinary research in AI, ethics and more. 😊🏛️ First venue where I saw researchers, policy makers and industry folks coming together for a conversation.

🔍 Outstanding engagement at our Search Engines in the AI Era presentation! 🎉 Great discussions with the #ACMFAccT2025 community about the critical gap between promised factual accuracy and actual performance in LLM-based search systems. When AI-powered search becomes…

That random moment at a conference when you realise your badge doesn't say "PhD student" anymore. Just your name and your new affiliation. Feels good, feels weird. 😊😊 Seeing the academic world from this new side hits different for sure. #Facct2025

At Athens this week to present my work at #FAccT2025! 🏛️ I'll be showcasing the work on understanding the ethics behind generative search engines or deep research models. If you're around or would like to grab coffee, feel free to DM me! ☺️☕ Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2410.22349

We @PSUCrowdAILab are looking for *native speakers* of English or Spanish for our study. It's a remote study in which you review+label 200 reviews. We pay $20. Sign up here: forms.gle/DKkmhSBQh5NUd7… Zixin Tang ([email protected]) is happy to answer any questions!

Thrilled to join Salesforce AI Research as a Research Scientist! @SFResearch I’ll be part of the Interactive AI team, led by @jasonwu0731, working on trustworthy AI systems + sociotechnical eval of language tech. If you're in SF/Palo Alto, lets meet up! 🌞 #AI #NLProc #NewJob

Excited to share I've been accepted into the NSF Research Traineeship: Linguistic Diversity Across the Lifespan — advancing human-technology interaction! "You reap what you sow." The path hasn't been linear, but every zigzag has led to growth🌱 Thanks @windx0303 for the support!

Happy to share that I'm co-organizing this workshop at COLM, with a fantastic line-up of speakers. Please consider submitting your work! (Due date: June 23)

It’s been a crazy journey of growth, resilience, and collaboration! 21 papers, 4 best paper awards, and an honorable mention for Best AI Dissertation! Huge thanks to my advisor @ShomirWilson , labmates, and the amazing research community. This is for all of you! 🚀

A lil late to post but... I’ve officially completed my PhD in Informatics from Penn State! 🎉🎉🎉 My thesis, “Society and Bias: Uncovering Automated Prejudices in Sociotechnical NLP Systems”, explores biases in human language technologies. #PhD #AI #Research #AcademicJourney

Excited to share that CogAlign is accepted at #ACL2025 Findings! We investigated the "Jagged Intelligence" of VLMs – their surprising difficulty with basic visual arithmetics (e.g., counting objects, measuring angles) compared to their strong performance on harder visual tasks.…

This was led by Jiayi Li and Dr. @rajtmajer_sarah along with Yingfan Zhou, Halima Binte Islam, Sneha Arya and Dr. @ShomirWilson! Thank you so much for having me be part of this amazing work. ❤️

Yay! Our work 'Can Third-Parties Read Our Emotions?' was accepted to #ACL2025 Main 🎉! We compare emotions that social media users identified in their posts to third party humans and LLM agent responses, showing why emotion identification is nuanced and personal. 😊 #NLP #LLMs

🆕paper: LLMs Get Lost in Multi-Turn Conversation In real life, people don’t speak in perfect prompts. So we simulate multi-turn conversations — less lab-like, more like real use. We find that LLMs get lost in conversation. 👀What does that mean? 🧵1/N 📄arxiv.org/abs/2505.06120

This work would not have been possible without the mentorship and collaboration from @PhilippeLaban @jasonwu0731 @YilunZhou and Yixin Mao. You can find the preprint of our work here: arxiv.org/pdf/2410.22349 More details and benchmarks to follow soon!!! 😊 #LLM #NLP #Research

As a researcher working at the intersection of Ethics in AI and NLP, I’ve always dreamed of submitting to FAccT — but timing never worked out. The 'fact' that I finally was able to and the paper being accepted, means the world to me. 🥹

Im so excited that my work got accepted to FAccT 2025! 🎉 This was the first part of my internship project at Salesforce Research, where we qualitatively explored how LLM-based search fail in delivering holistic, accurate, and verifiable info. #Facct2025 #NLProc @SFResearch

✨My first first-authored CHI paper has been selected for a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award at #CHI2025! So grateful to my dream team—collaborators across institutions who came together purely from shared curiosity and care for meaningful research.💫 Let's keep going !🌱