Yulia Tsvetkov
Yulia Tsvetkov is a venture partner at AI House and an associate professor at the University of Washington's Allen School, where she leads a natural language processing research group focused on reliable, socially aware and multilingual language technologies. She was previously an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon's Language Technologies Institute and a postdoc in the Stanford NLP Group.
Johns Hopkins-Linked Team Uses AI Tool INFOGAP to Reveal Cross-Language Biases in Wikipedia Biographies of LGBT People
Researchers including Johns Hopkins computer scientist Anjalie Field developed an AI tool called INFOGAP to compare biographical Wikipedia content across English, Russian, and French and found inconsistent portrayals of LGBT people that reflect cultural and social biases. The team says INFOGAP can scale to analyze regional or language differences in news and other media, helping educators and policymakers identify and address bias.
Biden Administration Awards $550,436 to University of Washington to Build AI That Detects and Suppresses Social-Media Microaggressions
The Biden administration awarded University of Washington researchers $550,436 (so far $132,000 disbursed) to develop AI that detects and suppresses microaggressions and implicit bias on social media; critics contend the funding risks enabling censorship and echoes concerns about government influence on online speech.
Organizations
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AI House Venture Partner · current
Education
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Carnegie Mellon University Ph.D. · 2011–2016
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University of Haifa MSc (on the Dean's List), Computer Science · 2007–2010
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Technion - Israel Institute of Technology BSc, Computer Science and Education · 2000–2005
