Jaspreet Ranjit

I am a 4th Year PhD Candidate at the University of Southern California advised by Prof. Swabha Swayamdipta in the NLP department at the DILL Lab, a student leader for the Center for AI in Society and also Secretary for the Women in Science and Engineering 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. Im interested in developing methods that align language models with domain expertise in high-impact social applications. I study how AI systems and domain experts can act as effective partners in knowledge extraction to ensure that model outputs reflect the values of the people they serve.

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 2026 in topics of Human-Centered NLP and NLP for Social Good, please reach out to me via email jranjit@usc.edu