📍 Seattle, WA 🌐 kyrawilson.github.io/me ✉️ [email protected] 📚 Google Scholar 🟢 ORCID: 0009-0001-3955-3409

EDUCATION

PhD in Information Science

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

BA in Linguistics and Computer Science, cum laude

Carleton College, Northfield, MN

• Undergraduate C.S. Thesis: Bird Transformers: Modifying Bird Images Using Natural Language; advised by Dr. Anna Rafferty
• Undergraduate Linguistics Thesis: A Cross-Linguistic Overview of Allocutivity and its Syntactic Accounts; advised by Dr. Cherlon Ussery

2023-

2016-2020

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research aims to measure and evaluate the performance of AI systems, particularly large language models, in terms of fair and equitable outcomes. I draw on sociotechnical and interdisciplinary approaches, and I’m particularly interested in devising novel ways to evaluate models that better represent their real-world use in terms of scaled deployment and human-AI teaming.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Doctoral Researcher Information School, University of Washington

• Conducted research on LLMs usage for resume screening, including disparate outcomes and human-AI interaction
• Investigate depictions of people with stigmatized identities created using text-to-image generators
• Advisor: Dr. Aylin Caliskan

Research Assistant Neuroscience of Language Lab, New York University Abu Dhabi

• Under the supervision of Dr. Alec Marantz, developed and executed research projects, including experiment design, participant recruitment, running experiments, data analysis, and writing and presenting papers
• Increased efficiency of data analysis by using high performance computing cluster
• Operated and maintained a 208 channel magnetoencephalography (MEG) machine
• Trained other researchers in how to design and execute MEG experiments
• Performed administrative tasks such as record keeping and scheduling

Center for the Study of Language and Information Summer Intern Language and Cognition Lab, Stanford University

• Under the supervision of Drs. Michael C. Frank and Abdullah Fourtassi, investigated children's language development through corpus analysis
• Compared different acquisition models using techniques from Natural Language Processing
• Attended weekly seminars about current theories and methods of studying language and cognition

Summer Research Partner Department of Linguistics, Carleton College

• Under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Fortin, used Python scripting to organize database of Dakota language vocabulary and sentences
• Worked with native Dakota speakers to collect and transcribe language data
• Developed a unified account of Dakota noun phrase structure
• Organized previous scholarship published about Siouan languages

2023-

2020-2023

2019

2018

TEACHING AND MENTORING EXPERIENCE

Independent Studies

• IMT 600: Independent Study or Research in Information Management

Teaching Assistant Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science, Carleton College

• Courses: Introduction to Linguistics, Introduction to Syntax, Generative Approaches to Syntax, Social Computing
• Held office hours to assist students with problem sets and review before exams
• Assisted professors with grading, creating review materials, and other course tasks

Summer 2025

2018-2020

WORK EXPERIENCE

Academic Proofreading

• Friedman, B., & Hendry, D. G. (2026). Value sensitive design: Shaping technology with moral imagination (2nd ed.). MIT Press.

PUBLICATIONS

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