Asma Ghandeharioun
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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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 (25)
dialog9
uncertainty8
editing8
chat8
calibration8
hosts8
reinforcement-learning7
localization7
nlp6
deep-learning6
machine-learning6
pytorch6
neural-network5
bert5
natural-language-processing5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google/belief-localization
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
This repository includes code for the paper "Does Localization Inform Editing? Surprising Differences in Where Knowledge Is Stored vs. Can Be Injected in Language Models."
Contributions:18 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 3 months
nlpstoredinformbertknowledge
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
proxyannotatorcalibrationbiasuncertainty
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