I have brown hair with golden highlights, is wearing a black and pink dress, and is smiling.
I have brown hair with golden highlights, is wearing a black and pink dress, and is smiling.

Naba Rizvi

It's pronounced "nub-buh rizz-vee"
She/her
Pakistan born Canada Saudi Arabia raised USA Morocco blooming

I am a multi-award winning CSE PhD Candidate at UCSD logo UC San Diego. I work on fine-tuning and evaluating LLMs, data collection and quality assurance for LLM benchmarking, and prompt engineering for LLM safety and alignment. I have first-author publications at FAccT, CHI, and CSCW, as well as ACL (in submission, with average 4/5 score), and served as an invited speaker at top conferences including NeurIPS, SigCSE, GHC, and Tapia. I even co created the curriculum for the human-centered AI course at UCSD. My research has been featured in both national and international media, reaching 21 nations, and even earned me a commendation letter from former VP Kamala Harris!

Google logo 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)

Collaborators: Dr. Imani Munyaka, Dr. Nedjma Ousidhoum, Dr. Andrew Begel (Carnegie Mellon University)

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

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

Contact Me: [firstinitial][lastname]@gmail.com


Last updated May 29, 2025.