I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Mila Institute supervised by Yoshua Bengio, and a Computational Social Scientist at the UN Global Pulse.

I am currently searching for a full-time Research Scientist position at the intersection of AI and societal impacts for late 2021. Send me an email if you think I would be a good fit for your team!

News

• I am an area chair on the Ethics for NLP track for EMNLP 2021.
• My recent article, “What’s in the Box? An Analysis of Undesirable Content in the Common Crawl Corpus” got accepted to ACL-IJCNLP 2021!
• I am a co-organizer of the 2021 Machine Learning Reproducibility Challenge and the 3rd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Social Good at IJCAI 2021.
• I have received the 2021 Antidote Scholarship for my work in Natural Language Processing.
• I was featured in a recent CBC article about the dangers of bias in AI models.

About me

The research subjects I am working on are:

• The societal and environmental impacts of artificial intelligence (AI)
• Calculating the carbon impact of AI algorithms
• Ethical and explainable machine learning
• Best practices for data collection and sharing
• Deploying AI tools for humanitarian support

Check out the other pages on this site for more information about my publications, talks I have given and projects that I’m involved in.

For my full CV, see here