Outreach

Speaking Engagements, Media Mentions, Leadership

Invited Speaking Engagements

Oct 2023, Dual Governance: The intersection of centralized regulation and crowdsourced safety mechanisms for Generative AI at NSERC CREATE - Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence
Aug 2023, “Queer Bias Bounty: Considerations for community audits and lessons learnt” at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, UK
Apr 2023, “Can There be AI Art Without an Artist?” at South by SouthWest (SXSW), Austin, TX, USA
Feb 2023,“On the evolving tension between centralized regulation and decentralized development of Text-to-Image Models” at AIDBEI at AAAI 2023
Dec 2022, “Proxies for bias monitoring: Ethics workshop” at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, UK
Nov 2022, “Subverting Fair Image Search with Generative Adversarial Perturbations” as a part of the ‘Celebrating Young Researchers’ event, Trustworthy ML Initiative

Media Mentions

Oct 2023, How Can AI Affect LGBTQIA+ People In India? Three Indian-Origin Queer Researchers Explain - IndiaTimes
Sep 2023, He hacked AI chatbots to find flaws and vulnerabilities. Now Northeastern’s Avijit Ghosh is writing a report on combating these problems - Northeastern Global
Aug 2023, From Google To Nvidia, Tech Giants Have Hired Red Team Hackers To Break Their AI Models - Forbes
Aug 2023, Radio Interview - AirTalk - LAIST/NPR
Aug 2023, Radio Interview - As It Happens - CBC Canada
Aug 2023, When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty - The New York Times
Mar 2023, From accessibility efforts to ethical concerns, here are our AI takeaways from SXSW content creators should consider - Passionfruit
Nov 2021, NYC aims to be first to rein in AI hiring tools - Associated Press
Feb 2021, Auditors are testing hiring algorithms for bias, but there’s no easy fix - MIT Technology Review
Jan 2021, New York City Proposes Regulating Algorithms Used in Hiring - Wired
Jan 2021, Supporting Responsible Use of AI and Equitable Outcomes in Financial Services - The Federal Reserve
Dec 2019, Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate Against Women and Older Workers, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement - Propublica
Dec 2019, Facebook Agreed Not to Let Its Ads Discriminate. But They Still Can. - Mother Jones

Leadership

2023 - SIGIR DEI lunch with speaker panel on disability in computing - Organizer
2023 - FAccT CRAFT Workshop on an India-first Responsible AI research agenda - Organizer
2022 - FAccT CRAFT Workshop on Humanitarian AI for the Global South - Organizer
2022 - FAccT CRAFT Workshop on Identifying Queer Harms as a bias bounty with Queer in AI - Organizer
2021 - SIGIR Queer in AI social with speaker panel on queer stereotypes in web search - Organizer
2017 - Kharagpur Winter Of Code - Founder
2016 - Kharagpur Open Source Society - Founder