Susan Leavy

Susan Leavy is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information and Communication, University College Dublin, affiliated with the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Her research bridges artificial intelligence, text mining, and digital humanities, focusing on bias mitigation in machine learning algorithms and cultural analytics.

• PhD in Artificial Intelligence & Bias Detection, Trinity College Dublin
• MPhil in Gender and Women’s Studies
• MSc in Artificial Intelligence
• BA in Philosophy and English Literature

Her work spans gender bias in AI, ethical data curation, multimodal bias analysis, and algorithmic transparency. Recent publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches to auditing generative models, mitigating bias through inclusive language, and socio-technical frameworks for AI safety.

Key trends in her research include: cross-disciplinary methods for bias detection, ethical AI design informed by feminist theory, and security applications of machine learning for content moderation and network protection.

She has developed tools like CURATR for historical text analysis and ARTAI for societal risk assessment in recommender systems, while advocating for feminist epistemology in data-centric AI.