Katherine Elkins
Professor at AI Safety Institute
Gambier, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKatherine Elkins is a Professor and founding force in human-centered AI with nine years of experience designing curricula, research methods, and ethical frameworks that tie language processing to real-world impact. Based at Kenyon College, she created the world’s first Human-Centered AI curriculum and has mentored projects downloaded by tens of thousands, blending classroom teaching with large-scale scholarly influence. As Founding Co-Director of KDH Lab she developed the SentimentArcs methodology, now used across media analysis, and she leads applied research on emotional manipulation detection as Principal Investigator at the NIST US AI Safety Institute. Her work at Meta and collaborations with Notre Dame and IBM reflect a rare combination of linguistic rigor, transparency advocacy, and practical evaluation methods for LLM accountability. Known for exacting attention to linguistic precision, she brings a scholar’s depth and a practitioner’s focus to ethical AI deployment and governance.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Yale University
Github Skills (23)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Juicysteak117/MinimalImprovement
Feb 2018 - Dec 2022
I made a theme for Better Discord. Here it is.
Contributions:369 commits, 3 PRs, 366 pushes in 4 years 11 months
discord
Juicysteak117/pghrt
Oct 2025 - Feb 2026
A Practical Guide To Feminizing Hormone Replacement Therapy
Contributions:8 reviews, 3 PRs, 54 pushes in 3 months
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