Outreach
Speaking Engagements, Media Mentions, Leadership
Invited Speaking Engagements
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Oct 2023, Dual Governance: The intersection of centralized regulation and crowdsourced safety mechanisms for Generative AI at NSERC CREATE - Responsible Development of Artificial Intelligence
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Aug 2023, “Queer Bias Bounty: Considerations for community audits and lessons learnt” at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, UK
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Apr 2023, “Can There be AI Art Without an Artist?” at South by SouthWest (SXSW), Austin, TX, USA
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Feb 2023,“On the evolving tension between centralized regulation and decentralized development of Text-to-Image Models” at AIDBEI at AAAI 2023
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Dec 2022, “Proxies for bias monitoring: Ethics workshop” at the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation, UK
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Nov 2022, “Subverting Fair Image Search with Generative Adversarial Perturbations” as a part of the ‘Celebrating Young Researchers’ event, Trustworthy ML Initiative
Media Mentions
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Oct 2023, How Can AI Affect LGBTQIA+ People In India? Three Indian-Origin Queer Researchers Explain - IndiaTimes
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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
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Aug 2023, From Google To Nvidia, Tech Giants Have Hired Red Team Hackers To Break Their AI Models - Forbes
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Aug 2023, Radio Interview - AirTalk - LAIST/NPR
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Aug 2023, Radio Interview - As It Happens - CBC Canada
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Aug 2023, When Hackers Descended to Test A.I., They Found Flaws Aplenty - The New York Times
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Mar 2023, From accessibility efforts to ethical concerns, here are our AI takeaways from SXSW content creators should consider - Passionfruit
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Nov 2021, NYC aims to be first to rein in AI hiring tools - Associated Press
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Feb 2021, Auditors are testing hiring algorithms for bias, but there’s no easy fix - MIT Technology Review
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Jan 2021, New York City Proposes Regulating Algorithms Used in Hiring - Wired
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Jan 2021, Supporting Responsible Use of AI and Equitable Outcomes in Financial Services - The Federal Reserve
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Dec 2019, Facebook Ads Can Still Discriminate Against Women and Older Workers, Despite a Civil Rights Settlement - Propublica
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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