Pranav is a brown queer Asian chaotic zoomer who is a research engineer at Dayta AI, Hong Kong. At QueerInAI, he organizes social events in NLP conferences, mentors volunteers and sets up DEI and safety initiatives.

Website: pranav-a.github.io

Ti is a research fellow at Aalto University, Finland, with research interests from probabilistic modelling and decision-making under uncertainty via transparent/interpretable models and visualizations to applications such as in healthcare, bio and earth sciences. At Queer in AI, Ti organized the first fully-virtual workshop at ICML 2020, is supporting members in cases of conflict or any other concerns, and helps out wherever else is needed.

Claas is a PhD student at the University of Toronto where he tries to find out why reinforcement learning is so hard. For Queer in AI, he organized workshops and events at various conferences.

Twitter: @c_voelcker

Danica is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Amii, working on representation learning and statistical learning theory. At Queer in AI, she helps organize events at AI conferences and to improve trans-inclusive policies.

Hetvi is a grad student in AI and is primarily interested in understanding biological systems using mathematics & CS.

Twitter: @vuisnotabot

Ashwin is a queer bahujan activist and researcher in algorithmic fairness and AI ethics. They served as the first DEI Admin for Queer In AI and are currently pursuing graduate studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. They help organize research and policy initiatives at Queer In AI.

Twitter: @_ashwxn

Sharvani is a software engineer at Microsoft - she received her BS in computer science from UCLA in 2021 and co-founded QWER Hacks. At Queer in AI, she works on organizing workshops + graphic design / publicity + supporting undergraduates.

Twitter: @sharvanilla

Maria is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she leads the Boulder Language and Social Technologies group. At Queer in AI, she helps organize events and workshops at NLP conferences.

Arjun is a brown queer neurodivergent PhD student at the University of California, Los Angeles. Their research focuses on critical and theoretical understandings of fair graph learning and modes of LGBTQIA+ participation in AI more broadly. They help organize Queer in AI workshops and advocacy.

Twitter: @arjunsubgraph

Sabine is a queer person who holds PhD from the University of Edinburgh and currently works as a postdoc at the University of Bamberg. They are interested in multilingual NLP, AI ethics, science communication and art. They organized Queer in AI socials and were one of the Social Chairs at NAACL 2021 and D&I chair at EACL 2024. They also write the Queer in AI blog.

Raj is a gay New Yorker and an Assistant Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York. His research is in artificial intelligence, human-robot interaction, and machine learning. Currently, he is focused on socially aware robot navigation and explainable AI. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the City University of New York. He has co-organized Queer in AI events at AI conferences, such as AAAI and AAMAS, and co-founded Queer in Robotics.

Andrea is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Robotics at the University of Michigan whose research centers tactile feedback. She is a co-founder of Queer in Robotics.

Luca is a queer researcher working on Natural Language Processing (NLP); currently, they are a research scientist at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). At Queer In AI, they work on socials and workshops planning for NLP conferences, scholarship programs, and sponsors relations.

Twitter: @soldni

Maria is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT. Her research interests include computational linguistics, NLP, cognitive science, and neuroscience. At Queer in AI, they help organize workshops and socials at NLP conferences and run the Graduate Application Aid Program, which supports queer scholars pursuing careers in STEM.

Twitter: @maria_ryskina

Shane is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan working on commonsense reasoning in NLP and embodied interactive agents. At Queer in AI, he helps organize workshops and socials for NLP conferences.

Nathan is a queer Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Southern California working on personalization and customization in human-robot interaction. Nathan helps organize different workshops and gatherings for Queer in AI.

Alissa is a Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC working on “fairness in precision psychiatry” projects using NLP and EHR. Alissa is an organizer for Queer in AI workshops, socials, mentorship, and loves to help with sticker/swag design.

Amanda is a Ph.D. student at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, working on natural language generation. At Queer in AI, she helps organize workshops and events at NLP conferences.

Martin is an independent group leader at hessian.AI & visiting professor at TU Darmstadt with a research focus on lifelong learning and dynamic machine learning workflows. Martin has served as diversity & inclusion chair at AAAI-24 and helps to organize Queer in AI activities.

Carter is a PhD student at the University of Arkansas working on privacy and interpretability in machine learning. Carter helps organize socials and conference events for Queer in AI.

Yanan is a research scientist at the University of Chicago with a focus on Bayesian statistics, AI for Science and Health, NLP and AI ethics. At Queer in AI, Yanan helps with organizing workshops/socials at conferences and policy works.

Twitter: @YananLong