Kaitlyn Zhou
@kaitlynzhou.bsky.social
Incoming Assistant Professor @cornellbowers.bsky.social
Researcher @togetherai.bsky.social
Previously @stanfordnlp.bsky.social @ai2.bsky.social @msftresearch.bsky.social
https://katezhou.github.io/
Researcher @togetherai.bsky.social
Previously @stanfordnlp.bsky.social @ai2.bsky.social @msftresearch.bsky.social
https://katezhou.github.io/
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No better time to start learning about that #AI thing everyone's talking about...
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
No better time to start learning about that #AI thing everyone's talking about...
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
No better time to start learning about that #AI thing everyone's talking about...
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
📢 I'm recruiting PhD students in Computer Science or Information Science @cornellbowers.bsky.social!
If you're interested, apply to either department (yes, either program!) and list me as a potential advisor!
As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT.
Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951
Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
As of June 2025, 66% of Americans have never used ChatGPT.
Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951
Our new position paper, Attention to Non-Adopters, explores why this matters: AI research is being shaped around adopters—leaving non-adopters’ needs, and key LLM research opportunities, behind.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.15951
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
We are excited to welcome five new faculty members to Cornell Bowers this semester!
A Big Red Bowers Welcome to Sasha Golovnev, Andrew Owens '10, David Rand '04, Benjamin Shestakofsky, and Kaitlyn Zhou. 👋
Read more: lnkd.in/ewA4U4fU
A Big Red Bowers Welcome to Sasha Golovnev, Andrew Owens '10, David Rand '04, Benjamin Shestakofsky, and Kaitlyn Zhou. 👋
Read more: lnkd.in/ewA4U4fU
September 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We are excited to welcome five new faculty members to Cornell Bowers this semester!
A Big Red Bowers Welcome to Sasha Golovnev, Andrew Owens '10, David Rand '04, Benjamin Shestakofsky, and Kaitlyn Zhou. 👋
Read more: lnkd.in/ewA4U4fU
A Big Red Bowers Welcome to Sasha Golovnev, Andrew Owens '10, David Rand '04, Benjamin Shestakofsky, and Kaitlyn Zhou. 👋
Read more: lnkd.in/ewA4U4fU
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.
October 3, 2025 at 10:53 PM
AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
It is PhD application season again 🍂 For those looking to do a PhD in AI, these are some useful resources 🤖:
1. Examples of statements of purpose (SOPs) for computer science PhD programs: cs-sop.org [1/4]
1. Examples of statements of purpose (SOPs) for computer science PhD programs: cs-sop.org [1/4]
CS PhD Statements of Purpose
cs-sop.org is a platform intended to help CS PhD applicants. It hosts a database of example statements of purpose (SoP) shared by previous applicants to Computer Science PhD programs.
cs-sop.org
October 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
It is PhD application season again 🍂 For those looking to do a PhD in AI, these are some useful resources 🤖:
1. Examples of statements of purpose (SOPs) for computer science PhD programs: cs-sop.org [1/4]
1. Examples of statements of purpose (SOPs) for computer science PhD programs: cs-sop.org [1/4]
I'll be at COLM next week! Let me know if you want to chat! @colmweb.org
@neilrathi.bsky.social will be presenting our work on multilingual overconfidence in language models and the effects on human overreliance!
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06306
@neilrathi.bsky.social will be presenting our work on multilingual overconfidence in language models and the effects on human overreliance!
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06306
arxiv.org
October 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I'll be at COLM next week! Let me know if you want to chat! @colmweb.org
@neilrathi.bsky.social will be presenting our work on multilingual overconfidence in language models and the effects on human overreliance!
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06306
@neilrathi.bsky.social will be presenting our work on multilingual overconfidence in language models and the effects on human overreliance!
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06306
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
📣 Life update: Thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting as faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems this Fall!
I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html
I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html
July 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
📣 Life update: Thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting as faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems this Fall!
I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html
I’ll be recruiting PhD students in the upcoming cycle, as well as research interns throughout the year: lasharavichander.github.io/contact.html
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
For EMNLP 2025’s special theme of "Advancing our Reach: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP", we are organizing a panel of experts, and would like input from the community at large as we prepare. Please take a moment to fill in this survey: forms.office.com/r/pWFFA0Gss1
July 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
For EMNLP 2025’s special theme of "Advancing our Reach: Interdisciplinary Recontextualization of NLP", we are organizing a panel of experts, and would like input from the community at large as we prepare. Please take a moment to fill in this survey: forms.office.com/r/pWFFA0Gss1
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
1/
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
1/
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆
Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.
Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!
facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...
Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.
Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!
facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...
Announcing Best Paper Awards
The Best Paper Award Committee was chaired this year by Alex Chouldechova and included six Area Chairs. The committee selected three papers for the Best Paper Award and recognized three additional pap...
facct-blog.github.io
June 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆
Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.
Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!
facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...
Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.
Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!
facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
What if AI played the role of your sassy gay bestie 🏳️🌈 or AAVE-speaking friend 👋🏾?
You: “Can you plan a trip?”
🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅”
LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them 🧵
📣 our #FAccT2025 paper: bit.ly/3HJ6rWI
[1/9]
You: “Can you plan a trip?”
🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅”
LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them 🧵
📣 our #FAccT2025 paper: bit.ly/3HJ6rWI
[1/9]
June 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
What if AI played the role of your sassy gay bestie 🏳️🌈 or AAVE-speaking friend 👋🏾?
You: “Can you plan a trip?”
🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅”
LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them 🧵
📣 our #FAccT2025 paper: bit.ly/3HJ6rWI
[1/9]
You: “Can you plan a trip?”
🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅”
LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them 🧵
📣 our #FAccT2025 paper: bit.ly/3HJ6rWI
[1/9]
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
Do people actually like human-like LLMs? In our #ACL2025 paper HumT DumT, we find a kind of uncanny valley effect: users dislike LLM outputs that are *too human-like*. We thus develop methods to reduce human-likeness without sacrificing performance.
June 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Do people actually like human-like LLMs? In our #ACL2025 paper HumT DumT, we find a kind of uncanny valley effect: users dislike LLM outputs that are *too human-like*. We thus develop methods to reduce human-likeness without sacrificing performance.
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
Here’s something we can all do: every time we see something about the Trump administration’s attacks on science — and the impacts of those attacks — boost it. People, and even faculty, have no idea how bad it is and how much worse it’s going to get. We need to let people know…
Commentary: It isn’t just the DEI or climate grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board. This means Ohio students will be denied opportunities for cutting-edge careers given to previous generations buff.ly/rvom6rH
DOGE cuts to science will impact Ohio, students • Ohio Capital Journal
It isn’t just the DEI or climate-related grants getting the axe from President Trump. Science agencies face up to 55% cuts across the board, tens of billions of dollars. This means Ohio students will…
buff.ly
May 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Here’s something we can all do: every time we see something about the Trump administration’s attacks on science — and the impacts of those attacks — boost it. People, and even faculty, have no idea how bad it is and how much worse it’s going to get. We need to let people know…
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
Here are some graphs
May 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Here are some graphs
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I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you!
May 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I guess that now that I have 1% of my Twitter followers follow me here 😅, I should announce it here too for those of you no longer checking Twitter: my nonfiction book, "Lost in Automatic Translation" is coming out this July: lostinautomatictranslation.com. I'm very excited to share it with you!
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
Exciting news: The Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a predoctoral fellow!!! 🎉
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
FATE Research Assistant (“Pre-doc”) - Microsoft Research
The Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) Research group at Microsoft Research New York City (MSR NYC) is looking for a pre-doctoral research assistant (pre-doc) to start August 20...
www.microsoft.com
May 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Exciting news: The Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) group at Microsoft Research NYC is hiring a predoctoral fellow!!! 🎉
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Thrilled that our paper won 🏆 Best Paper Runner-Up 🏆 at #NAACL25!!
Our work (REL-A.I.) introduces an evaluation framework that measures human reliance on LLMs and reveals how contextual features like anthropomorphism, subject, and user history can significantly influence user reliance behaviors.
Our work (REL-A.I.) introduces an evaluation framework that measures human reliance on LLMs and reveals how contextual features like anthropomorphism, subject, and user history can significantly influence user reliance behaviors.
April 29, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Thrilled that our paper won 🏆 Best Paper Runner-Up 🏆 at #NAACL25!!
Our work (REL-A.I.) introduces an evaluation framework that measures human reliance on LLMs and reveals how contextual features like anthropomorphism, subject, and user history can significantly influence user reliance behaviors.
Our work (REL-A.I.) introduces an evaluation framework that measures human reliance on LLMs and reveals how contextual features like anthropomorphism, subject, and user history can significantly influence user reliance behaviors.
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
🟢 Announcing the #NAACL2025 Award Winners!
The Best Paper and Best Theme Paper winners will present at our closing session
2025.naacl.org/blog/best-pa...
The Best Paper and Best Theme Paper winners will present at our closing session
2025.naacl.org/blog/best-pa...
April 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🟢 Announcing the #NAACL2025 Award Winners!
The Best Paper and Best Theme Paper winners will present at our closing session
2025.naacl.org/blog/best-pa...
The Best Paper and Best Theme Paper winners will present at our closing session
2025.naacl.org/blog/best-pa...
Life update! Excited to announce that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor at Cornell Info Sci in August 2026! I’ll be recruiting students this upcoming cycle!
An abundance of thanks to all my mentors and friends who helped make this possible!!
An abundance of thanks to all my mentors and friends who helped make this possible!!
April 24, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Life update! Excited to announce that I’ll be starting as an assistant professor at Cornell Info Sci in August 2026! I’ll be recruiting students this upcoming cycle!
An abundance of thanks to all my mentors and friends who helped make this possible!!
An abundance of thanks to all my mentors and friends who helped make this possible!!
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
Thrilled to share that my *incoming* PhD student Yewon Kim’s work on multimodal inspiration in music AI has been recognized with a Best Paper Award at #CHI2025 🎉
Yewon really knocked it out of the park here. Can't wait to see what she does for her PhD!
arxiv.org/abs/2412.18940
Yewon really knocked it out of the park here. Can't wait to see what she does for her PhD!
arxiv.org/abs/2412.18940
Amuse: Human-AI Collaborative Songwriting with Multimodal Inspirations
Songwriting is often driven by multimodal inspirations, such as imagery, narratives, or existing music, yet songwriters remain unsupported by current music AI systems in incorporating these multimodal...
arxiv.org
March 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Thrilled to share that my *incoming* PhD student Yewon Kim’s work on multimodal inspiration in music AI has been recognized with a Best Paper Award at #CHI2025 🎉
Yewon really knocked it out of the park here. Can't wait to see what she does for her PhD!
arxiv.org/abs/2412.18940
Yewon really knocked it out of the park here. Can't wait to see what she does for her PhD!
arxiv.org/abs/2412.18940
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“The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research,” writes Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully”:
Columbia’s Real Radical Threat Is From the Government
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
www.theatlantic.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
“The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research,” writes Princeton president Christopher L. Eisgruber. “Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully”:
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
March 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
🎙️ Speech recognition is great - if you speak the right language.
Our new @stanfordnlp.bsky.social paper introduces CTC-DRO, a training method that reduces worst-language errors by up to 47.1%.
Work w/ Ananjan, Moussa, @jurafsky.bsky.social, Tatsu Hashimoto and Karen Livescu.
Here’s how it works 🧵
Our new @stanfordnlp.bsky.social paper introduces CTC-DRO, a training method that reduces worst-language errors by up to 47.1%.
Work w/ Ananjan, Moussa, @jurafsky.bsky.social, Tatsu Hashimoto and Karen Livescu.
Here’s how it works 🧵
March 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🎙️ Speech recognition is great - if you speak the right language.
Our new @stanfordnlp.bsky.social paper introduces CTC-DRO, a training method that reduces worst-language errors by up to 47.1%.
Work w/ Ananjan, Moussa, @jurafsky.bsky.social, Tatsu Hashimoto and Karen Livescu.
Here’s how it works 🧵
Our new @stanfordnlp.bsky.social paper introduces CTC-DRO, a training method that reduces worst-language errors by up to 47.1%.
Work w/ Ananjan, Moussa, @jurafsky.bsky.social, Tatsu Hashimoto and Karen Livescu.
Here’s how it works 🧵
Reposted by Kaitlyn Zhou
Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/
March 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Arresting and threatening to deport students because of their participation in political protest is the kind of action one ordinarily associates with the world’s most repressive regimes. It’s genuinely shocking that this appears to be what’s going on right here. 1/