Kshitish Ghate

MLT graduate student at the Language Technologies Institute - CMU.

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Hello there!

I am Kshitish Ghate. My research interests lie in understanding how social biases are learned by artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic systems, and the consequences of such learned biases on society. I am interested in exploring how AI systems can be improved to deliver trustworthy and ethical decisions.

I am currently a second year Graduate Student at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon, pursuing a Master’s degree in Language Technologies where I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Mona Diab . I am also grateful to be have been advised thus far by Dr. Aylin Caliskan, Dr. Fei Fang, Dr. Tessa Charlesworth, Dr. Mahzarin Banaji, and Dr. Snehanshu Saha during my undergradutate and graduate years. Previously, I graduated from BITS Pilani, India, where I completed a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Master’s in Economics.

news

May 13, 2024 I will be returning to UW to pursue my summer research internship where I will be co-advised by Aylin Caliskan and Mona Diab!
Aug 12, 2023 I am starting my Graduate degree in Language Technologies where I will be advised by Mona Diab!
Oct 20, 2022 I will be pursuing my undergraduate thesis under Prof. Aylin Caliskan at the University of Washington!
Mar 15, 2022 I will be starting a part-time position as a research assitant at the Banaji Lab!
Jan 1, 2022 I will be working as a Teaching Assistant for the course Applied Econometrics!

selected publications

  1. Under Review
    Bias In, Bias Out: Propagation of Intrinsic Intersectional Social Group Bias to Extrinsic Zero-Shot Tasks in Vision-Language Models
    in prep
  2. GeBNLP
    Evaluating Gender Bias in Multilingual Multimodal AI Models: Insights from an Indian Context
    Kshitish Ghate, Arjun Choudhry, and Vanya Bannihatti Kumar
    In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP) 2024
  3. PNAS Nexus
    Extracting intersectional stereotypes from embeddings: Developing and validating the Flexible Intersectional Stereotype Extraction procedure
    Tessa ES Charlesworth, Kshitish Ghate, Aylin Caliskan, and 1 more author
    PNAS nexus 2024
  4. RBF
    COVID-19 pandemic sentiment and stock market behavior: evidence from an emerging market
    Byomakesh Debata, Kshitish Ghate, and Jayashree Renganathan
    Review of Behavioral Finance 2021