Jaspreet Ranjit

I am a 3rd Year PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California advised by Prof. Swabha Swayamdipta in the NLP department at the DILL Lab and a student leader for the Center for AI in Society at USC.

My research interests lie in investigating to what extent language models can help us understand societal issues (i.e. homelessness, suicide interventions) by exploring collaborative settings between domain experts and generative models. I’m a big proponent of interdisciplinary collaborations so a large part of my work involves engaging with community partners! As a student leader for the Center of AI in Society, I helped start an open dialogue series (CAIS Think Tank) to foster research collaborations between the School of Engineering and School of Social Work, and I am helping organize a student-led conference on AI for Social Good in April 2025.

Previously, I was a Research Assistant in the Vision, Language and Learning Lab, working with Prof. Vicente Ordóñez - Rice Univ. and Tianlu Wang - Meta Research on exploring gender biases in Visual Recognition Models. I was also a member of the Link Lab under the mentorship of Prof. Madhur Behl - Univ. of Virginia where I researched methodologies for better traffic scene understanding that contribute to the safety of autonomous vehicles.

I graduated with my Master’s in Computer Science from the University of Virginia in December 2021. I received my Bachelor of Science at the University of Virginia in Computer Science as a Rodman Scholar. Here is a link to my curriculum vitae.

I’m actively looking for internships for Summer 2025 in topics of Human-Centered NLP and NLP for Social Good, please reach out to me via email jranjit@usc.edu