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

EDUCATION

PhD in Information Science • 2023-

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

BA in Linguistics and Computer Science, cum laude • 2016-2020

Carleton College, Northfield, MN

• Honors: Mortar Board Honor Society
• 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

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 • 2023- 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 • 2020 - 2023 Neuroscience of Language Lab, New York University Abu Dhabi