Chahat Raj

I am a final year Ph.D. candidate, majoring in Computer Science at George Mason University. I'm advised by Prof. Ziwei Zhu and Prof. Antonios Anastasopoulos. I am also advised by Prof. Aylin Caliskan at the University of Washington. I interned as an Applied Scientist at Amazon AWS with the Bedrock Guardrails team.

I specialize in sociocultural biases, ethics, and fairness in multimodal and multilingual NLP. My current work examines how biases are perpetuated and reinforced in large vision-language models, and explores mitigation approaches informed by social psychology and cognitive sciences.

My broader goal is to develop responsible and trustworthy AI that accounts for how language, culture, and social context shape model behavior. Here's my research in 4 slides.

The times when I'm not a Researcher, I'm a Poet!