Dr. Naba Rizvi

It's pronounced "nub-buh rizz-vee" | She/her
PhD in Computer Science, UC San Diego '25
born raised blooming

I am a multi-award winning AI researcher working on fine-tuning, evaluation, benchmarking, and prompt engineering for LLM safety and alignment. I have first-author publications at ACL, FAccT, CHI, and CSCW, as well as one preprint, and have served as an invited speaker at top conferences including NeurIPS, SigCSE, GHC, and Tapia. I have been featured on both national and international media reaching 51M+ viewers, provided neuro-inclusive AI training to organizations across 18 European nations, and even received a commendation letter from former VP Kamala Harris!

Selected First-Author Publications: AUTALIC: A Dataset for Anti-AUTistic Ableist Language In Context (ACL '25), "I Hadn't Thought About That": Creators of Human-like AI Weigh in on Ethics And Neurodivergence (FAccT '25), Beyond Keywords: Evaluating Large Language Model Classification of Nuanced Ableism (preprint).

Selected Awards: 2024 J&J Lime Connect Finalist, 2023 CS Hero Award, 2020 NCWIT Collegiate Award, 2019 Adobe Research WiT Award, 2018 Google Women Techmakers Award, 5x Hackathon Winner (First Place: 2)

Formerly at Google Health AI (2022), Microsoft Research (2020), Adobe Research (2019)

Research Interests: AI evaluation, benchmarking, safety, and alignment

Contact Me: [firstname][lastname]99@gmail.com

Check out my dissertation!