My name is Zeerak Talat (I used to go by Zeerak Waseem), a Research Fellow at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence and one of the 2024 visiting researcher fellows at HIIG. I work on the intersection between machine learning, science and technology studies, and media studies. My research seeks to examine how machine learning systems interact with our societies and the downstream effects of introducing machine learning to our society. I did my undergrad in Computer Science and the University of Copenhagen, and my master’s in IT & Cognition (with Dirk Hovy), and recently finished my Ph.D. (with Kalina Bontcheva). You can find me raising issues with machine learning on Twitter and Mastodon. I’m always looking for interesting people to work, so do send me an e-mail at z[at]zeerak[dot]org.
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News
- 07 Mar, 2024 | 2 new papers with a lovely set of co-authors on class in NLP (to appear at COLING-LREC) and on subjectivity and hate speech!
- 07 Mar, 2024 | A new paper on multilingual sentiment analysis has been accepted to appear at EACL.
- 14 Nov, 2024 | I am lucky to have been selected as one of the 2024 visiting researchers at the Alexander von Humbold Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft in Berlin!
- 17 Oct, 2023 | I gave a guest lecture for te research methods course at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence titled: Ethics, Fairness, and Bias in Machine Learning
- 12 Oct, 2023 | I gave an invited talk with Gavin Abercrombie at Google Deepmind titled: Mirages, Disagreement, and the Futures of NLP