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I am a Computer Science PhD candidate at UCLA with Prof. <a href="http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~yzsun/">Yizhou Sun</a> and Prof. <a href="http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~kwchang/">Kai-Wei Chang</a>.</p> <p>☕ My research focuses on the fairness and ethics of machine learning and natural language processing. My work socially grounds technical design choices and conceptualizations of constructs by combining theory, experimental methods, and qualitative analysis. I am further an organizer of Queer in AI, through which I advocate for LGBTQIA+ equity in AI.</p> <p>📧 <b>Please reach out!</b> Especially if you're looking for a community of LGBTQIA+ or neurodivergent individuals in AI. I'd be happy to talk and help out in any way I can 😊</p> </div> <div class="col-md-12"> <div class="col-sm-4"> <h3>Education</h3> <ul class="ul-edu fa-ul"> <li>  <i class="fa-li fa fa-graduation-cap"></i> <div class="description"> <p class="course">PhD, Computer Science, Amazon Science Hub Fellow, NSF MENTOR Fellow, Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellow <br />Sept. 2021 -- Present</p> <p class="institution">University of California, Los Angeles</p> <p class="course">BS, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude <br />Sept. 2018 -- Mar. 2021</p> <p class="institution">University of California, Los Angeles</p></div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-sm-8"> <h3>Work Experience</h3> <ul class="ul-interests"> <li> <p class="institution">Nov 2019 -- Present, UCLA Scalable Analytics Institute, Researcher </p> </li> <li> <p class="institution">Jul 2020 -- Present, UCLA NLP, Researcher </p> </li> <li> <p class="institution">June 2024 -- October 2024, FAIR Cost and Alignment, Research Intern </p> </li> <li> <p class="institution">August 2022 -- November 2022, FAIR Society and Responsible AI, Research Intern </p> </li> <li> <p class="institution">May 2022 -- August 2022, Microsoft Research FATE, Research Intern </p> </li> <li> <p class="institution">Jun 2021 -- Sep 2021, Snap, Inc., Privacy Research Intern  </p> </li> <li> <p class="institution">Mar 2021 -- Jun 2021, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, AllenNLP, Research Engineering Intern </p> </li>  </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="conference_papers" class="home-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 section-heading"> <h1>Conference Papers, Journal Papers, and Book Chapters</h1></div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <hr style="filter:alpha(opacity=100,finishopacity=0,style=2);background-color:#D8D8D8;height:3px" />  <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">An Effective Theory of Bias Amplification</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Samuel Bell, Levent Sagun, Elvis Dohmatob <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17263">arXiv</a> <div class="pub-publication">ICLR 2025 (32.08% acceptance rate)</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Strong Model Collapse</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Elvis Dohmatob, Yunzhen Feng, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Julia Kempe <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04840">arXiv</a> <div class="pub-publication">ICLR 2025 Spotlight (5.1% acceptance rate)</div> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Margaret Mitchell, Giuseppe Attanasio, Ioana Baldini, Miruna Clinciu, Jordan Clive, Pieter Delobelle, Manan Dey, Sil Hamilton, Timm Dill, Jad Doughman, Ritam Dutt, Avijit Ghosh, Jessica Zosa Forde, Carolin Holtermann, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Tanmay Laud, Anne Lauscher, Roberto L Lopez-Davila, Maraim Masoud, Nikita Nangia, Anaelia Ovalle, Giada Pistilli, Dragomir Radev, Beatrice Savoldi, Vipul Raheja, Jeremy Qin, Esther Ploeger, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Kaustubh Dhole, Kaiser Sun, Amirbek Djanibekov, Jonibek Mansurov, Kayo Yin, Emilio Villa Cueva, Sagnik Mukherjee, Jerry Huang, Xudong Shen, Jay Gala, Hamdan Al-Ali, Tair Djanibekov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Shangrui Nie, Shanya Sharma, Karolina Stanczak, Eliza Szczechla, Tiago Timponi Torrent, Deepak Tunuguntla, Marcelo Viridiano, Oskar van der Wal, Adina Yakefu, Aurélie Névéol, Mike Zhang, Sydney Zink, Zeerak Talat <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17263">arXiv</a> <div class="pub-publication">NAACL 2025</div> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Theoretical and Empirical Insights into the Origins of Degree Bias in Graph Neural Networks</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Jian Kang, Yizhou Sun <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03139">arXiv</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://nips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/96851">Video/Poster</a> <div class="pub-publication">NeurIPS 2024 (25.8% acceptance rate)</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Understanding "Democratization" in NLP Research</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u>*</b>, Vagrant Gautam*, Dietrich Klakow, Zeerak Talat <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.184/">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.11598">arXiv</a> <div class="pub-publication">EMNLP 2024 (20.8% acceptance rate)</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Networked Inequality: Preferential Attachment Bias in Graph Neural Network Link Prediction</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Levent Sagun, Yizhou Sun <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://proceedings.mlr.press/v235/subramonian24a.html">URL</a>  <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.17417">arXiv</a>  <div class="pub-publication">ICML 2024 (27.5% acceptance rate)</div> <div class="pub-publication">Graph Learning Frontiers @ NeurIPS 2023 Oral (15.4% acceptance rate)</div></div> </div> </div>  <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Evaluating the Social Impact of Generative AI Systems in Systems and Society</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Irene Solaiman*, Zeerak Talat*, William Agnew, Lama Ahmad, Dylan Baker, Su Lin Blodgett, Canyu Chen, Hal Daumé III, Jesse Dodge, Isabella Duan, Ellie Evans, Felix Friedrich, Avijit Ghosh, Usman Gohar, Sara Hooker, Yacine Jernite, Ria Kalluri, Alberto Lusoli, Alina Leidinger, Michelle Lin, Xiuzhu Lin, Sasha Luccioni, Jennifer Mickel, Margaret Mitchell, Jessica Newman, Anaelia Ovalle, Marie-Therese Png, Shubham Singh, Andrew Strait, Lukas Struppek, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05949">arXiv</a> <div class="pub-publication">Oxford University Press Handbook on Generative AI</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Motif-Driven Contrastive Learning of Graph Representations</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Shichang Zhang, Ziniu Hu, <u><b>Arjun Subramonian</b></u>, Yizhou Sun <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10429945">URL</a> <div class="pub-publication">Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Factoring the Matrix of Domination: A Critical Review and Reimagination of Intersectionality in AI Fairness </h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Anaelia Ovalle, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Vagrant Gautam, Gilbert Gee, Kai-Wei Chang <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3600211.3604705">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17555">arXiv</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.queerinai.com/blog/seven-ways-to-interscetionality">Blog Post</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://dippedrusk.com/posts/2023-09-15-intersectionality/">Blog Post</a> <div class="pub-publication">AIES 2023 Oral (7.7% acceptance rate)</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Bound by the Bounty: Collaboratively Shaping Evaluation Processes for Queer AI Harms </h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Organizers Of QueerInAI, Nathan Dennler, Anaelia Ovalle, Ashwin Singh, Luca Soldaini, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Huy Tu, William Agnew, Avijit Ghosh, Kyra Yee, Irene Font Peradejordi, Zeerak Talat, Mayra Russo, Jess de Jesus de Pinho Pinhal <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3600211.3604682">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.10223">arXiv</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NzmBZMqnJ42iRMUehJWNxhO2B6YdWrYFKEwMaE3cm14/edit">Slides</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1r0gh2-PqSvqJmtqHcMAbKwoLyKWsKvok82y58vhYVVc/edit">Poster</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://montrealethics.ai/bound-by-the-bounty-collaboratively-shaping-evaluation-processes-for-queer-ai-harms/">Blog Post</a> <div class="pub-publication">AIES 2023 (28.9% acceptance rate)</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">It Takes Two to Tango: Navigating Conceptualizations of NLP Tasks and Measurements of Performance </h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Xingdi Yuan, Hal Daumé III, Su Lin Blodgett <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.202/">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.09022">arXiv</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://virtual2023.aclweb.org/paper_P1291.html">Video/Poster</a> <div class="pub-publication">Findings of ACL 2023 (41.89% acceptance rate)</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name"><a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" style="background: #494294; color: #fff;" href="./pdf/FAccT_best_paper_award.pdf">Best Paper</a> Queer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Organizers of QueerInAI, Anaelia Ovalle, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Ashwin Singh, Claas Voelcker, Danica J. Sutherland, Davide Locatelli, Eva Breznik, Filip Klubička, Hang Yuan, Hetvi J, Huan Zhang, Jaidev Shriram, Kruno Lehman, Luca Soldaini, Maarten Sap, Marc Peter Deisenroth, Maria Leonor Pacheco, Maria Ryskina, Martin Mundt, Melvin Selim Atay, Milind Agarwal, Nyx McLean, Pan Xu, A Pranav, Raj Korpan, Ruchira Ray, Sarah Mathew, Sarthak Arora, St John, Tanvi Anand, Vishakha Agrawal, William Agnew, Yanan Long, Zijie J. Wang, Zeerak Talat, Avijit Ghosh, Nathaniel Dennler, Michael Noseworthy, Sharvani Jha, Emi Baylor, Aditya Joshi, Natalia Y. Bilenko, Andrew McNamara, Raphael Gontijo-Lopes, Alex Markham, Evyn Dǒng, Jackie Kay, Manu Saraswat, Nikhil Vytla, Luke Stark <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3593013.3594134">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16972">arXiv</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3lPD6UKwRs">Video</a> <div class="pub-publication">FAccT 2023 (24.5% acceptance rate)</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">On the Discrimination Risk of Mean Aggregation Feature Imputation in Graphs</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Kai-Wei Chang, Yizhou Sun <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2022/hash/d4c2f25bf0c33065b7d4fb9be2a9add1-Abstract-Conference.html">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://neurips.cc/virtual/2022/poster/53849">Video/Poster</a> <div class="pub-publication">NeurIPS 2022 (25.6% acceptance rate)</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Queer in AI</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Organizers of QueerInAI, Hetvi Jethwani*, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u>*</b>, William Agnew*, MaryLena Bleile*, Sarthak Arora*, Maria Ryskina*, Jeffrey Xiong* <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3538543">URL</a> <div class="pub-publication">XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, Volume 28, Issue 4</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">On Dyadic Fairness: Exploring and Mitigating Bias in Graph Connections</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://iclr-blog-track.github.io/2022/03/25/dyadic-fairness/">URL</a> <div class="pub-publication">ICLR 2022 Blogpost Track (32% acceptance rate)</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Harms of Gender Exclusivity and Challenges in Non-Binary Representation in Language Technologies</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Sunipa Dev, Masoud Monajatipoor*, Anaelia Ovalle*, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u>*</b>, Jeff M Phillips, Kai-Wei Chang <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.150/">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12084">arXiv</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://uclanlp.medium.com/harms-of-gender-exclusivity-and-challenges-in-non-binary-representation-in-language-technologies-5f89891b5aee">Blog Post</a> <div class="pub-publication">EMNLP 2021 Oral (9.8% acceptance rate)</div> <div class="pub-publication">Women in Machine Learning @ NeurIPS 2021</div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">MOTIF-Driven Contrastive Learning of Graph Representations</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <u><b>Arjun Subramonian</b></u> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/17986">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="./pdf/MOTIF-poster.pdf">Poster</a> <div class="pub-publication">AAAI 2021 Undergraduate Consortium (17% acceptance rate)</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Automated, Cost-Effective Optical System for Accelerated Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) Using Deep Learning</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Calvin Brown, Derek Tseng, Paige M. K. Larkin, Susan Realegeno, Leanne Mortimer, <u><b>Arjun Subramonian</b></u>, Dino Di Carlo, Omai B. Garner, Aydogan Ozcan <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsphotonics.0c00841">URL</a> <div class="pub-publication">ACS Photonics</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Estimating the Ages of FGK Dwarf Stars Through the Use of GALEX FUV Magnitudes</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Sara Crandall, Graeme H. Smith, <u><b>Arjun Subramonian</b></u>, Kelly Ho, Evelyn M. Cochrane <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/abb77d">URL</a> <div class="pub-publication">The Astronomical Journal</div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="workshop_papers" class="home-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6 section-heading"> <h1>Workshop Papers</h1></div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <hr style="filter:alpha(opacity=100,finishopacity=0,style=2);background-color:#D8D8D8;height:3px" /> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Stop! In the Name of Flaws: Disentangling Personal Names and Sociodemographic Attributes in NLP</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Vagrant Gautam, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Anne Lauscher, Os Keyes <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.gebnlp-1.20/">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17159">arXiv</a> <div class="pub-publication">Gender Bias in NLP @ ACL 2024</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Prompting Multilingual Large Language Models to Generate Code-Mixed Texts: The Case of South East Asian Languages</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Zheng-Xin Yong, Ruochen Zhang, Jessica Zosa Forde, Skyler Wang, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Holy Lovenia, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Genta Indra Winata, Lintang Sutawika, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Yin Lin Tan, Long Phan, Rowena Garcia, Thamar Solorio, Alham Fikri Aji <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://aclanthology.org/2023.calcs-1.5/">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13592">arXiv</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-m33NI1MujRtd0i8IWemREINDhIY2vy1k5JYj5EqLiI/edit">Slides</a> <div class="pub-publication">Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching @ EMNLP 2023</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Critical Technopolicy and Reflexivity For Proactive Gender-Inclusive NLP</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Davi Liang, Anaelia Ovalle, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Alicia Boyd <div class="pub-publication">Queer in AI @ ACL 2023</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Group Excess Risk Bound of Overparameterized Linear Regression with Constant-Stepsize SGD</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Levent Sagun, Kai-Wei Chang, Yizhou Sun <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://openreview.net/forum?id=TRpJAAK3o0X">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://neurips.cc/virtual/2022/61593">Video/Poster</a> <div class="pub-publication">Trustworthy and Socially Responsible Machine Learning @ NeurIPS 2022</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">You Reap What You Sow: On the Challenges of Bias Evaluation Under Multilingual Settings</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Zeerak Talat, Aurélie Névéol, Stella Biderman*, Miruna Clinciu*, Manan Dey*, Shayne Longpre*, Alexandra Sasha Luccioni*, Maraim Masoud*, Margaret Mitchell*, Dragomir Radev*, Shanya Sharma*, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u>*</b>, Jaesung Tae*, Samson Tan*, Deepak Tunuguntla*, Oskar van der Wal* <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://aclanthology.org/2022.bigscience-1.3/">URL</a> <div class="pub-publication">Challenges & Perspectives in Creating Large Language Models @ ACL 2022</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">How to Make Virtual Conferences Queer-Friendly: A Guide</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Organizers of QueerInAI, A Pranav, MaryLena Bleile, <u><b>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Luca Soldaini, Danica Sutherland, Sabine Weber, Pan Xu, William Agnew, Michael McKenna, Nyx McLean <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.queerinai.com/how-to-make-virtual-conferences-queer-friendly">URL</a> <div class="pub-publication">Widening NLP @ EMNLP 2021</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Motif-Driven Contrastive Learning of Graph Representations</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Shichang Zhang, Ziniu Hu, <u><b>Arjun Subramonian</b></u>, Yizhou Sun <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.12533">arXiv</a> <div class="pub-publication">Self-Supervised Learning @ WWW 2021</div></div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Queer | Inclusive | Badass</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <u><b>Arjun Subramonian</b></u> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://sites.google.com/view/resistance-ai-neurips-20/accepted-papers-and-media">URL</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="./pdf/7 - Queer _ Inclusive _ Badass.pdf">PDF</a> <div class="pub-publication">Resistance AI @ NeurIPS 2020</div></div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="preprints" class="home-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6 section-heading"> <h1>Preprints</h1></div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <hr style="filter:alpha(opacity=100,finishopacity=0,style=2);background-color:#D8D8D8;height:3px" /> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Pairwise Matching of Intermediate Representations for Fine-grained Explainability</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Lauren Shrack, Timm Haucke, Antoine Salaün, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Sara Beery <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.22881">arXiv</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Survey of Bias In Text-to-Image Generation: Definition, Evaluation, and Mitigation</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Yixin Wan, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Anaelia Ovalle, Zongyu Lin, Ashima Suvarna, Christina Chance, Hritik Bansal, Rebecca Pattichis, Kai-Wei Chang <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01030">arXiv</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Weisfeiler and Leman Go Measurement Modeling: Probing the Validity of the WL Test</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, Adina Williams, Maximilian Nickel, Yizhou Sun, Levent Sagun <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05775">arXiv</a> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Teven Le Scao, ..., <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, ..., Thomas Wolf <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05100">arXiv</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Fairness and Bias Mitigation: A practical guide into the AllenNLP Fairness module</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <u><b>Arjun Subramonian</b></u> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://github.com/allenai/allennlp/tree/main/allennlp/fairness">GitHub</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://guide.allennlp.org/fairness">Guide</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="http://docs.allennlp.org/main/api/fairness/adversarial_bias_mitigator/">Documentation</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://medium.com/ai2-blog/an-introduction-to-fairness-and-bias-mitigation-with-allennlp-d1b478d44d4c">Blog Post</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="public-scholarship" class="home-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6 section-heading"> <h1>Public Scholarship</h1></div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <hr style="filter:alpha(opacity=100,finishopacity=0,style=2);background-color:#D8D8D8;height:3px" /> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Queer AI Harms and Proposed Policy Interventions</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Organizers of QueerInAI, ..., <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, ... <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.queerinai.com/ai-policy-report-2024">URL</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">AI and Queer Communities</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.queerinai.com/blog/ai-and-queer-communities">URL</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">FINDINGS: Exploring the Impact of AI</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> National AI Advisory Committee, ..., <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b>, ... <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Findings_Exploring-the-Impact-of-AI.pdf">URL</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Queer in AI National AI Advisory Committee 2023 Briefing</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Organizers of QueerInAI, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u></b> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.queerinai.com/naiac-briefing">URL</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="pub-list-item" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-md-12"> <h5 class="article-title" itemprop="name">Rebuilding Trust: Queer in AI Approach to Artificial Intelligence Risk Management</h5> <div class="pub-authors" itemprop="author"> Organizers of QueerInAI, Ashwin S*, William Agnew*, Hetvi Jethwani*, <b><u>Arjun Subramonian</u>*</b> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.queerinai.com/risk-management">URL</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="honors" class="home-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6 section-heading"> <h1>Honors</h1></div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <hr style="filter:alpha(opacity=100,finishopacity=0,style=2);background-color:#D8D8D8;height:3px" /> <ul> <li>Two Sigma PhD Fellowship Nominee, 1 of 6 students selected by UCLA (2024)</li> <li>Amazon Science Hub Fellowship (2024) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.sciencehub.ucla.edu/2024-amazon-fellows/">Site</a></li> <li>Google PhD Fellowship Nominee, 1 of 4 students selected by UCLA (2024)</li> <li>JP Morgan PhD Fellowship Nominee, 1 of 2 students selected by UCLA (2024)</li> <li>LoG Conference Top-10 Reviewer (2023)</li> <li>Queer in AI Ford Foundation Research Grant (2023) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/grants-database/out-in-science-technology-engineering-mathematics-inc-148313/">Site</a></li> <li>FAccT Best Paper Award (2023) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://facctconference.org/2023/acceptedpapers.html">Site</a></li> <li>NSF MENTOR Fellowship (2022)</li> <li>Allen AI Outstanding Intern of the Year (2021) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://allenai.org/outstanding-interns">Site</a></li> <li>Major League Hacking Top 50 (2021) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://top.mlh.io/2021/profiles/arjun-subramonian">Site</a></li> <li>UCLA Samueli School-Wide Outstanding Bachelor of Science (2021) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-samueli-announces-2021-commencement-awards/">Site</a></li> <li>UCLA Chancellor's Service Award (2021) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://commencement.seas.ucla.edu/2021-awards/">Site</a></li> <li>UCLA Samueli Engineering Achievement Award in Student Welfare (2021) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://commencement.seas.ucla.edu/2021-awards/">Site</a></li> <li>UCLA Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship (2021)</li> <li>Boeing Company Scholarship (2021)</li> <li>Brian J. Lewis Endowment (2021)</li> <li>UCLA Dean's Honors List (2018-2021)</li> <li>Computing Research Association Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Honorable Mention (2020) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://cra.org/about/awards/outstanding-undergraduate-researcher-award/">Site</a></li> <li>IBM Quantum Challenge (2020)</li> <li>3rd Place Award for Best Hack @ Rose Hack, Major League Hacking (2019)</li> <li>Siemens Competition Regional Finalist (2017) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://preview.thenewsmarket.com/Previews/SIMS/DocumentAssets/488137.pdf">Site</a></li> <li>Award of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter (2016)</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="talks" class="home-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6 section-heading"> <h1>Invited Talks</h1></div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <hr style="filter:alpha(opacity=100,finishopacity=0,style=2);background-color:#D8D8D8;height:3px" /> <ul> <li>From “Democratization” to Personal Names: Reimagining NLP Practices Towards Justice, USC ISI Natural Language Seminar (2025) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.isi.edu/events/5500/from-democratization-to-personal-names-reimagining-nlp-practices-towards-justice/">Event</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1HSqjHX1N9kzefTOYqoKvnBCBJLRCBV0twvvgh8YgFUU/edit">Slides</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6MIbqvPIQ">Video</a></li> <li>From "Democratization" to Personal Names: Reimagining NLP Practices Towards Justice, Algorithmic Decision Systems (ADS) Reading Group, UC Berkeley (2024) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-Kb7xfQmT8F7_W_4pZG20VT6fMNr14LVgIN866g5WBA/edit">Slides</a></li> <li>Queer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI, Microsoft GLEAM Security (2024) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gNJp5px-eGEjyEZ6nlmZzeknaQaBpsqqbwrKIze0_fM/edit">Slides</a></li> <li>From "Democratization" to Personal Names: Reimagining NLP Practices Towards Justice, UC Berkeley Data Science for Social Justice Workshop (2024) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yP1o_nW6wRA8n9AiaZp_VE_XDOnrYNxsthcw7RYwEpg/edit">Slides</a></li> <li>'Queer-Inclusive' AI: Contesting the Power Structures and Logics of Machine Learning, IBM Research Tech for Justice Seminar (2024) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eVgJbfyFTNfJebaPJXlh3ahgVOu4RJ3rkRDUeb8Mf7U/edit">Slides</a></li> <li>Queer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI, Data & Society (2024) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1uwcIi7e2vesESVucGniq2sXMv3lgvAtCAMJIwt8Ekgs/edit">Slides</a></li> <li>Bias, Discrimination, and Power: Graphs and Natural Language, KUNGFU.AI (2023) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1DdiBHZZM-GtnOBxagkrMIP-RHfdQTwyHNWYYfCuMenM/edit">Slides</a></li> <li>Bias and Power in NLP, USC ISI Natural Language Seminar (2023) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.isi.edu/events/3193/bias-and-power-in-nlp/">Event</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="./pdf/NLP_Bias_Power_USC_ISI.pdf">Slides</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2UUYyQrREA">Video</a></li> <li>Bias and Power in NLP (for consultants), Paris (2022) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="./pdf/NLP_Bias_Simplified.pdf">Slides</a></li> <li>Bias and Power in NLP, NLP Seminars at Dublin College University, Ireland (2022) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="./pdf/NLP_Bias_Power.pdf">Slides</a></li> <li>Guest Lecture: Bias in Natural Language Processing, COM SCI 263: NLP, UCLA (2022) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="./pdf/NLP_Bias.pdf">Slides</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://youtu.be/okU4meBeATo">Video</a></li> <li>Queer in AI: Making AI Queer-Inclusive and Prioritizing Grassroots D&I Activism, Humlab, Umeå University (2022) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1m1a23sUYl9Hc9UhTQULHMfnMR109HNjJ2t729WJi6ec/edit">Slides</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://play.umu.se/playlist/dedicated/105250/0_qwbiscsy/0_lqdnclpb">Video</a></li> <li>Prioritizing Grassroots D&I Activism: Queer in AI, AAAI Workshop on Diversity in Artificial Intelligence (2022) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://kdd.cs.ksu.edu/Workshops/AAAI-2022/">Event</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-TJgRi6wsIG0vbEnjpzUX0xZk4FaMQYOUskZYd698NE/edit">Slides</a></li> <li>Prioritizing Grassroots D&I Activism: Queer in AI, Nike Sport+AI Conference (2022) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://sportai.splashthat.com/">Event</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1333ZLN7guJb09SXKLJt8w6IUQKLjfuU-vdcHNLjv1Xc/edit">Slides</a></li> <li>How Can I Make My Hackathon Queer-Inclusive?, Hackcon IX (2021) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OhisnuW2vd_6komajE7pHBXigZp_Ce0Y7cDrDHmyuuA/edit">Slides</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://youtu.be/4eG7nZV4gSE?t=5025">Video</a></li> <li>An Automated and Cost-Effective System for Early Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Using Optical Fibers and Deep Learning, UCLA HHMI Day (2019) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WR0mhFkQ4tYJYh1uQSOD2EZlI1KeEg-G/view">Slides</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="panels" class="home-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6 section-heading"> <h1>Invited Panels</h1></div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <hr style="filter:alpha(opacity=100,finishopacity=0,style=2);background-color:#D8D8D8;height:3px" /> <ul> <li>QICSE Panel, UC Berkeley (2024)</li> <li>Challenges and Perspectives for queer and/or disabled communites presented by AI in HCI, ICML Queer in AI Workshop (2024) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.queerinai.com/icml-2024">Event</a></li> <li>Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Values Roundtable, Center for AI & Digital Policy (2024) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.caidp.org/events/washdc24aidv/">Event</a></li> <li>UCLA Computer Science PhD Visit Day Panel (2024)</li> <li>UCLA ACM AI Outreach GALA Panel (2024)</li> <li>Queer Computation: A Critical Unmaking, Coding Inquiry, McMaster (2024)</li> <li>AI in the Time of Generative Models: Ensuring that Diverse Voices Are Heard, AAAI Workshop on Diversity in Artificial Intelligence (2024) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://kdd.cs.ksu.edu/Workshops/AAAI-AIDBEI-2024/">Event</a></li> <li>Students with Disabilities Panel, UCLA (2023)</li> <li>US AI Policy: Next Steps (2023)</li> <li>Queer in AI National AI Advisory Committee Briefing (2023) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.ai.gov/naiac/#MEETINGS">Event</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.queerinai.com/naiac-briefing">Briefing</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/684682/uiconf_id/31013851/entry_id/1_47f1l9nl/embed/dynamic">Video</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://subscriber.politicopro.com/newsletter/2023/06/where-cyber-and-ai-collide-00103757">Press</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://ai.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Findings_Exploring-the-Impact-of-AI.pdf">Findings</a></li> <li>Partnership on AI Inclusive Data Collection Workshop (2023)</li> <li>Data & Society Salon Series on Responsible AI in Government (2023)</li> <li>Students with Disabilities Panel, UCLA (2022)</li> <li>Accessibility and Inclusion Panel, Neuromatch Academy (2022) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/neuromatch-academy-2022-/19">Video</a></li> <li>Gender as a Variable in NLP, NAACL Queer in AI Workshop (2022) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.queerinai.com/naacl-2022">Event</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQ7UjdnSIg&list=PLdSIz7xU0W6QIIVfh19-7Wy0P0mFcnZM2&index=4&ab_channel=QueerInAI">Video</a></li> <li>NYU Center for Responsible AI Roundtable on Accessible AI Education (2022)</li> <li>Co-Opting AI: Queer, NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge (2022) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://ipk.nyu.edu/events/co-opting-ai-queer/">Event</a> <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmquMLMnCRQ">Video</a></li> <li>How Do We Improve DEI in AI?, Nike Sport+AI Conference (2022)</li> <li>Eye on A.I.: Equity & Inclusion in A.I. Technology, Toronto Public Library (2021) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/tpl_aiequityinclusion/register">Video</a></li> <li>Intersectionality Panel, NAACL (2021) <a class="btn btn-primary btn-outline btn-xs" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2EO5DXcq40">Video</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="press" class="home-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6 section-heading"> <h1>Press</h1></div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <hr style="filter:alpha(opacity=100,finishopacity=0,style=2);background-color:#D8D8D8;height:3px" /> <ul> <li>Creating queer inclusive research and experiences in AI, <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/creating-queer-inclusive-research-and-experiences-in-ai-the-techtank-podcast/">The TechTank Podcast</a> (2024)</li>    <li>How Can AI Affect LGBTQIA+ People In India? Three Indian-Origin Queer Researchers Explain, <a href="https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/spectrum/how-can-ai-affect-queer-people-in-india-617408.html">IndiaTimes</a> (2023)</li> <li>Arjun Subramonian: The Intersection of AI, Diversity, and Ethics, <a href="https://aneyeonai.libsyn.com/142-arjun-subramonian-the-intersection-of-ai-diversity-and-ethics">Eye on A.I.</a> (2023)</li> <li>What does an award-winning AI tech paper have to say about participatory governance?, <a href="https://www.queerinai.com/blog/qai-gov-participation"><em>Circle Back</em> Newsletter by Public Technology Leadership Collaborative</a> (2023)</li> <li>Making AI Systems More Just with Arjun Subramonian, <a href="https://pod.link/1649398080/episode/fcaa31464d864d047785eed7d7d71e9b">Unhinged Collaboration</a> (2023)</li> <li>Queering the Tech Industry, <a href="https://mailchimp.com/bloomseason/beyond/queering-the-tech-industry/">Bloom Season 2</a> (2023)</li> <li>Fighting AI bias means championing LGBTIQ+ rights, <a href="https://esmt.berlin/podcast/campus-10178-episode-26-Arjun-Subramonian-Queer-in-AI">Campus 10178</a> (2023)</li> <li>Seven Ways to Put Intersectionality into Your Research, <a href="https://www.queerinai.com/blog/seven-ways-to-interscetionality">Queer in AI Blog</a> (2023)</li> <li>Ethics in AI Wonderland, <a href="https://www.queerinai.com/blog/ethics-in-ai-wonderland">Queer in AI Blog</a> (2023)</li> <li>Arjun Subramonian on Queer Approaches to AI and Computing, <a href="https://www.thegoodrobot.co.uk/podcast/episode/771e07e0/arjun-subramonian-on-queer-approaches-to-ai-and-computing">The Good Robot</a> (2023)</li> <li>Trans Researchers Want Google Scholar to Stop Deadnaming Them, <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/trans-researchers-want-google-scholar-to-stop-deadnaming-them/">WIRED</a> (2022)</li> <li>Taking The TamBram Out of Pride Month, <a href="https://gaysifamily.com/lifestyle/taking-the-tambram-out-of-pride-month/">gaysi</a> (2022)</li> <li>Asian-Americans, we must resign from our role as Silicon Valley's model minority mascot, <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3538544">XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, Volume 28, Issue 4</a> (2022)</li> <li>.Tech Domains x Major League Hacking: 24 Student Programmers Share Their #MyStartInTech Stories, <a href="https://get.tech/blog/mlh-my-start-in-tech/">.Tech Domains</a> (2021)</li> <li>UCLA Engineering Outstanding Bachelor Awardee Champions Equity for LGBTQ+ Community, <a href="https://samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-engineering-outstanding-bachelor-awardee-champions-equity-for-lgbtq-community/">UCLA Samueli Newsroom</a> (2021)</li> <li>Queer in AI with Arjun Subramonian, <a href="https://thereader.500queerscientists.com/queer-in-ai-with/">500 Queer Scientists</a> (2021)</li> <li>UCLA Samueli Announces 2021 Commencement Awards, <a href="https://samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-samueli-announces-2021-commencement-awards/">UCLA Samueli Newsroom</a> (2021)</li> <li>QWER Hacks: A Case Study on How to Build an Inclusive Hackathon, <a href="https://samueli.ucla.edu/qwer-hacks-a-case-study-on-how-to-build-an-inclusive-hackathon/">UCLA Samueli Newsroom</a> (2021)</li> <li>UCLA's ACM AI Podcast Addresses AI and Diversity, Featuring Guests from Underrepresented Communities, <a href="https://samueli.ucla.edu/uclas-acm-ai-podcast-addresses-ai-and-diversity-featuring-guests-from-underrepresented-communities/">UCLA Samueli Newsroom</a> (2021)</li> <li>Student-run tech podcast aims to make computer science more diverse, accessible, <a href="https://dailybruin.com/2021/01/27/student-run-tech-podcast-aims-to-make-computer-science-more-diverse-accessible">Daily Bruin</a> (2021)</li> <li>Students code software to help underrepresented groups in LGTBQ+ hackathon, <a href="https://dailybruin.com/2020/01/27/students-code-software-to-help-underrepresented-groups-in-lgtbq-hackathon">Daily Bruin</a> (2020)</li> <li>Equality in America Town Hall with Tom Steyer, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/10/11/tom-steyer-lgbtq-rights-cnn-town-hall-vpx.cnn">CNN</a> (2019)</li> <li>Washington, California Students Win Regional Siemens Competition at California Institute of Technology, <a href="https://citybizlist.com/article/452259/washington-california-students-win-regional-siemens-competition-at-california-institute-of-technology">citybizlist</a> (2017)</li> <li>Indian American STEM Whiz Kids Named 2017 Siemens Regional Finalists, <a href="https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/indian-american-stem-whiz-kids-named-2017-siemens-regional-finalists/article_75ed7a08-b8f5-11e7-9fa1-4bab05f3c3d3.html">IndiaWest</a> (2017)</li> <li>Three MVHS students make it to semifinal round of Siemens competition, <a href="https://elestoque.org/2017/11/01/news/mvhs-students-semifinal-siemens-competition/">El Estoque</a> (2017)</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section id="service" class="home-section"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-xs-12 col-md-6 section-heading"> <h1>Service</h1></div> <div class="col-xs-12"> <hr style="filter:alpha(opacity=100,finishopacity=0,style=2);background-color:#D8D8D8;height:3px" /> <div> <p> <li><b>Reviewing:</b> <ul> <li><b>Conferences:</b> <ul> <li>NeurIPS (<a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2024/CallForPapers">2024</a>, <a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2024/CallForDatasetsBenchmarks">D&B 2024</a>, <a href="https://neurips.cc/public/EthicsGuidelines">Ethics 2024</a>, <a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2023/CallForPapers">2023</a>, <a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2023/CallForDatasetsBenchmarks">D&B 2023</a>, <a href="https://neurips.cc/public/EthicsGuidelines">Ethics 2023</a>)</li> <li>ICML (<a href="https://icml.cc/Conferences/2025/CallForPapers">2025</a>)</li> <li>ICLR (<a href="https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2025/CallForPapers">2025</a>, <a href="https://iclr.cc/Conferences/2025/CallForWorkshops">Workshops 2025</a>)</li> <li>FAccT (<a href="https://facctconference.org/2025/">2025</a>, <a href="https://facctconference.org/2024/">2024</a>, <a href="https://facctconference.org/2023/">2023</a>, <a href="https://facctconference.org/2022/">2022</a>)</li> <li>LoG (<a href="https://logconference.org/">2024</a>, <a href="https://logconference.org/">2023</a>, <a href="http://log2022.logconference.org/">2022</a>)</li> <li>KDD (<a href="https://kdd2024.kdd.org/">2024</a>, <a href="https://kdd.org/kdd2023/">2023</a>)</li> <li>ACL (<a href="https://www.aclweb.org/">Ethics 2024</a>)</li> <li>WebConf (<a href="https://www2024.thewebconf.org/">2024</a>)</li> </li> </ul> <li><b>Workshops:</b> <ul> <li>NeurIPS (<a href="https://glfrontiers.github.io/">GLFrontiers 2023</a>, <a href="https://glfrontiers.github.io/">GLFrontiers 2022</a>, <a href="https://tsrml2022.github.io/">TSRML 2022</a>)</li> <li>NAACL (<a href="https://trustnlpworkshop.github.io/">TrustNLP 2022</a>, <a href="https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/">WOAH 2022</a>, <a href="https://naacl2022-srw.github.io/">SRW 2022</a>)</li> <li>ACL (<a href="https://trustnlpworkshop.github.io/">TrustNLP 2023</a>, <a href="https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/">WOAH 2023</a>, <a href="https://www.queerinai.com/acl-2023">Queer in AI 2023</a>, <a href="https://bigscience.huggingface.co/acl-2022">BigScience 2022</a>)</li> </ul> </ul> <br> <li><b>Conference organization:</b> <ul> <li>LoG Outreach Chair (<a href="https://logconference.org/">2024</a>)</li> <li>FAccT Socials Chair (<a href="https://facctconference.org/2024/committees">2024</a>)</li> <li>NeurIPS Affinity Workshops Chair (<a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2022/Committees">2022</a>, <a href="https://neurips.cc/Conferences/2023/Committees">2023</a>)</li> <li>KDD EDI Day Chair (<a href="https://sites.google.com/g.ucla.edu/kdd2023/home">2023</a>)</li> <li>NAACL Accessibility Chair (<a href="https://2022.naacl.org/organization/#diversity-and-inclusion-chairs">2022</a>)</li> </ul> <br> <li><b>Workshop and social organization:</b> <ul> <li><a href="https://evaleval.github.io/">Evaluating Evaluations: Examining Best Practices for Measuring Broader Impacts of Generative AI @ NeurIPS 2024</a></li> <li>In Código of Hope: Possibilities of Global Solidarity and Activism in Academic Environments @ FAccT 2024</li> <li><a href="https://globalaicultures.github.io/">Global AI Cultures @ ICLR 2024</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.queerinai.com/facct-2022">Collaboratively Developing Evaluation Frameworks for Queer AI Harms @ FAccT 2022 </a></li> <li><b>Queer in AI:</b> <ul> <li>ICML (<a href="https://www.queerinai.com/icml-2024">2024</a>, <a href="https://www.queerinai.com/icml-2022">2022</a>, <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/queer-in-ai/icml-2021">2021</a>)</li> <li>NeurIPS (<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/queer-in-ai/neurips-2021">2021</a>)</li> <li>ICLR (<a href="https://www.queerinai.com/iclr-2024">2024</a>)</li> <li>AAAI (<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/queer-in-ai/aaai-2021">2021</a>)</li> <li>NAACL (<a href="https://www.queerinai.com/naacl-2025">2025</a>, <a href="https://www.queerinai.com/naacl-2022">2022</a>)</li> <li>ACL (<a href="https://www.queerinai.com/acl-2023">2023</a>)</li> </ul> </ul> <br> <li><b>Policy:</b> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.queerinai.com/policy-research">Queer in AI Policy Working Group</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.nist.gov/artificial-intelligence/artificial-intelligence-safety-institute/aisic-members">NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium</a></li> </ul> </li> <br> <li><b>Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI):</b> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.queerinai.com">Queer in AI organizer</a></li>  <li><a href="https://samueli.ucla.edu/equity-diversity-and-inclusion/">UCLA Samueli Standing Committee on Diversity member</a></li> <li><a href="https://allennlp-hackathon.apps.allenai.org/">AllenNLP Hacks organizer</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.qwerhacks.com">QWER Hacks organizer</a></li>  <li><a href="https://uclaacmai.github.io/outreach/">ACM AI at UCLA director</a></li>  </ul> <br> <li><b>Teaching:</b> <ul> <li><b>UCLA:</b> <a href="http://web.cs.ucla.edu/classes/winter23/cs32/">Computer Science 32</a> (2023), <a href="https://www.summer.ucla.edu/institutes/computerscience">Computer Science Summer Institute</a> (2022, 2023)</li>  </ul> <br> <li><b>Mentoring:</b> I am fortunate to mentor brilliant students: <ul> <li>Margaret Capetz</li> <li>Naisha Agarwal</li> <li>Pranav Subbaraman</li> <li>Steven Swee</li> </ul> </p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <br /> <footer class="site-footer"> <div class="container"> <p class="powered-by">© 2023 Arjun Subramonian · Modeled after <a href="https://acbull.github.io/">Ziniu Hu's website</a> with permission · Powered by the <a href="https://github.com/gcushen/hugo-academic" target="_blank">Academic theme</a> for <a href="http://gohugo.io" target="_blank">Hugo</a>. <span class="pull-right" 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