Jaspreet Ranjit

I am a 3rd Year PhD Student 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.

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.