Asma Ghandeharioun
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAsma Ghandeharioun is a Senior Research Scientist focused on aligning AI with human values by probing, controlling, and demystifying the inner workings of language models. With nine years of research experience spanning MIT Media Lab and multiple roles at Google and Google DeepMind, she combines deep academic rigor (PhD/MAS from MIT) with practical production-facing research. Her work uniquely emphasizes correcting collective misconceptions about model behavior while developing interpretable techniques for safer language AI. Based in the New York City area, she brings a rare mix of human-centered evaluation—evident from past field studies on emotionally intelligent assistants—and mechanistic understanding that helps bridge research insights to real-world governance and deployment.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), MAS, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), MAS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Sharif University of Technology
English, Persian
Github Skills (9)
webserver9
localization8
reinforcement-learning7
language-model7
machine-learning6
neural-network5
sequence-modeling5
proxy5
chatbot2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
asmadotgh/unc-net
Mar 2019 - May 2021
Code to support characterizing sources of uncertainty to proxy calibration and disambiguate annotator and data bias.
Contributions:114 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 2 months
proxy
asmadotgh/dissect
May 2020 - Nov 2021
DISSECT: Disentangled Simultaneous Explanations via Concept Traversals
Contributions:274 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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