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Aylin Caliskan is an Assistant Professor at The Information School at the University of Washington, with a courtesy appointment at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. She co-directs the Tech Policy Lab and is a faculty affiliate at the UW NLP RAISE and VSD Lab. Her research focuses on AI ethics, bias detection, and human-centered AI, with a particular emphasis on how biases from human society propagate into machine learning models.
- University of Washington – Assistant Professor
- Tech Policy Lab – Co-Director
- UW NLP RAISE – Faculty Affiliate
- VSD Lab – Faculty Affiliate
- Brookings Institution – Nonresident Fellow in Governance
Her research explores the mechanisms by which human society’s biases are encoded into AI systems, particularly in language and vision-language models. She develops evaluation techniques, transparency methods, and bias mitigation strategies to address these issues. Her work has been published in top-tier venues such as Science, PNAS, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, and ACM FAccT. She has also advised and collaborated with numerous students and researchers, including Kyra Wilson, Mattea Sim, Gandalf Nicolas, and Kshitish Ghate.
Her recent and accepted publications focus on generative AI’s societal impacts, including bias amplification in AI models, gender and race bias in resume screening, and the propagation of stereotypes through multimodal systems. These studies often analyze how biases encoded in AI can influence human decision-making and societal norms.
Scientific Awards:
- NSF CAREER Award (2024)
- 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics (2023)
- IJCAI Early Career Spotlight (2023)
She teaches courses on Generative AI and has delivered talks at institutions such as Stanford, NYU, and Howard University. Her work also intersects with law and policy, as seen in her Brookings Institution publications and service.
