Allison Koenecke
@allisonkoe
asst prof @CornellInfoSci | fairness in tech and public health | alum of @MSRNE, @ICMEStanford, @NERA_Economics, @MITMath | she/her
For folks at @FAccTConference, we're very excited to present this work tomorrow at the 10:45am "Bias Across Languages" session!
🎉 Excited to present our paper at @FAccTConference , co-authored with @JieboLuo @jiank_uiuc @allisonkoe : “Characterizing Bias: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Simplified versus Traditional Chinese” revealing 🤖LLM performance disparities. 📄 Link: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22645
📢Announcing 1-day CHI 2025 workshop: Speech AI for All! We’ll discuss challenges & impacts of inclusive speech tech for people with speech diversities, connecting researchers, practitioners, policymakers, & community members. 🎉Apply to join us: speechai4all.org
Please retweet: I am recruiting PhD students at Berkeley! Please apply to @Berkeley_EECS or @UCJointCPH if you are interested in ML applied to health, inequality, or social science, and mention my name in your app. More details on work/how to apply: cs.cornell.edu/~emmapierson/
Many thanks to @garanceburke & @HilkeSchellmann for covering our work and raising awareness about the potential harms of speech-to-text hallucinations in downstream applications! apnews.com/article/ai-art… For a refresher on our paper's findings, see🧵below:
🎷Excited to present our paper, “Careless Whisper: Speech-to-text Hallucination Harms” at @FAccTConference! 🎷We assess Whisper (OpenAI’s speech recognition tool) for transcribed hallucinations that don’t appear in audio input. Paper link: arxiv.org/abs/2402.08021, thread 👇
🌟Applying for a PhD @CornellInfoSci? Our student-run application feedback program is open NOW through Oct 31🌟 We're open to all and especially hope to support scholars who have navigated barriers in higher ed - please share to help us broaden access! infosci.cornell.edu/phd/admissions
Returning from perpetual Twitter hiatus to spread the word: @CornellInfoSci is hiring! Tenure-track hires at all levels in Ithaca, focusing on qual/interpretive methods, CSS/quant approaches, study/design of human/AI interactions. Review starts 11/10: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405