I am a Senior Research Scientist at Google Research on the Technology, AI, Society, and Culture (TASC) team. My research is at the intersection of language, AI, and society and I work towards the goal of building safe, and inclusive AI that is beneficial for the global majority. Some of my current objectives are grouding evaluations of generative models in real world experiences, and contextualizing them with diverse global perspectives and socio-cultural differences. I investigate and develop complementary socio-tecnhonal approaches to imbue an understanding of fairness across different fluid, and intersectional identities of people and channel them into robust, scalable model measurements, and interventions.
Prior to this, I was fortunate to recieve the NSF Computing Innovation Fellowship to work with Dr. Kai-Wei Chang at UCLA where I also received the DAAD AInet award, before which I completed my PhD with Dr. Jeff Phillips at the School of Computing in University of Utah.
I organize multiple workshops at *CL conferences, particularly the Cross Cultural Considerations in NLP workshop which has helped mobiilize researchers engaged with multi-cultural NLP of the world, and the HCI + NLP workshop which bridges together interdisciplinary work that is much needed to push the forntiers of language technologies. I am also an advisor and former organizer for the Widening NLP or WiNLP workshop. Reach out to know more or to join us!
A full list of my publications can be found here. The best way to reach me is at sunipadev [AT] google [DOT] com.
Here's a downloadable version of my CV!