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Aditya Vashistha
​Assistant Professor
​Information + Computer Science
Cornell University

Talks and Events
Feb 26  UK-India RAI Summit
Mar 13  Doing AI Differently
Apr 1   Google Research
Apr 3   Democracy's Information Dilemma, UMich 
Apr 4   SMSI, UMich
Apr 26  CHI, Japan
May 7   CCSS, Cornell
May 19  LLMs & Society Summit
May 29  Microsoft Research
Jun 4    IISc
Oct 10 CMU HCII Seminar

Current Ph.D. Advisees 
Deepak Varuvel Dennison
Gauri Nayak
Dhruv Agarwal
Ian René Solano-Kamaiko
​Farhana Shahid
Joy Ming 
Sharon Heung
Mahika Phutane

I am an Assistant Professor at the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science where I advise students in Information Science and Computer Science.

My research aims to design, build, and evaluate Globally Equitable AI technologies to improve socioeconomic outcomes for historically marginalized communities. 

​My research program focuses on addressing three pressing and high-impact problems: 
(1) Examining and combating misinformation and propaganda in low-income communities
(2) Understanding and mitigating ableism for disabled people
(3) Designing and evaluating responsible AI technologies in the Global South.  

More broadly, my research lies at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), ICT & Development (ICTD), Human-Centered AI (HAI), and Social Computing.  
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Before Cornell, I completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, where my dissertation was recognized with the William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award and the WAGS/ProQuest Innovation in Technology Award.​ 

​My research is generously supported by Microsoft, Google, Meta, Infosys, USAID, and others. 

Recent News

• Our paper on Data-Driven Advocacy received a Best Paper Award at CHI 2025. 
• Grateful for receiving the 2025 Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Award from the Einhorn Center! 
• Thank you Global Cornell for seed funding to set up a Cornell Center on Global AI. Article here. 
• Honored to be a recipient of the President’s and Provost’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Teaching, and Service. Announcement here.  
• Excited to receive Google Cyber NYC Award for our work on ableism in LLMs. 
• Our work received a Best Paper Award at FAccT'24. Read it here. 
• Will be organizing a Thought Summit on LLMs and Society. Thanks to Cornell Center for Data Science for the generous support.  More details here. 
• Excited to be a 2024-25 CCSS Faculty Fellow!
• Received Einaudi Seed Grant for examining ableism in LLMs. 
• Thank you to Microsoft's Accelerating Foundation Models Research Program for funding ​our work on evaluating cultural aspects of Generative AI technologies.​ ​​ ​

Recent Videos

Full video here