BIO

SALONI DASH

I am currently a PhD student at the Information School at the University of Washington (UW). Previously, I was a Research Fellow at Microsoft Research (MSR) India.  My research interests primarily lie in understanding how AI can influence cognitive mechanisms underpinning (mis)information processing & sensemaking. My research draws from multiple disciplines, including Social Computing, Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, & Psychology.  To learn more about my research, you can check out the RESEARCH section. 

Latest Updates
Latest Updates
November 7th, 2024: Received my 500th citation on Google Scholar!
October 30th, 2024: Awarded the Tier 1 Pilot Research Grant from the Population Health Department at UW.
June 17th - September 6th, 2024: Interned at Microsoft Research Redmond.
March 24th, 2024: Ran my first 10K at the Cherry Blossom Run in Seattle!
March 4th, 2024: Awarded the Innovation Fund by the Center for an Informed Public (CIP) at UW.
February 25th, 2022: Awarded the UW Graduate School Top Scholar Fellowship by the Information School at UW.
February 7th, 2022: Admitted to the Ph.D. Program in Information Science at UW iSchool.
Timeline
Vitae
  • University of Washington 2022 - present
    Information School, PhD Student
  • MSR Redmond Summer 2024
    Special Projects, Research Intern
  • MSR India 2020 - 2022
    Social Media & Society, Research Fellow
  • BITS Pilani 2015 - 2020
    M.Sc. Mathematics & B.E. Computer Science

RESEARCH

I have been extremely fortunate to have had great mentors who have nurtured and cultivated my research potential. I am currently pursuing my PhD at the Information School at the University of Washington. I currently work with Prof. Emma Spiro on modeling how generative AI can make (mis)information more persuasive. I also work with Prof. Aylin Caliskan on translating cognitive and psychology benchmarks for evaluating biases in LLM reasoning.   

At Microsoft Research IndiaI was working with Prof. Joyojeet Pal on studying the spread of political polarization, dangerous speech and disinformation during political crises in India. I was also working with Dr. Amit Sharma and Dr. Vineeth Balasubramanian on counterfactual generation for analysing the fairness of machine learning classifiers

I have also had the honor of working with Prof. Isabelle Guyon and Prof. Kristin Bennett for over two years on generating privacy-preserving  synthetic health data and time-series medical data using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Please refer to my CV for more details.

Please take a look at my google scholar profile for a comprehensive list.

You can download my regularly updated CV_Saloni

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