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René Kizilcec

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Associate Professor of Information Science @Cornell; Education, Technology, AI/ML, Fairness/Equity. Opinions are my own.

Ithaca, NY
Joined April 2009
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4 months
Excited to be at #lak2025 check out Kimberly Williamson’s paper today at 10:20 on Algo Appreciation among Educators! Happy to chat about the National Tutoring Observatory— we are hiring a postdoc and Asst Research Prof.
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Excited for @LearningAtScale to be in Palermo next summer together with @AIEDconf and @EDMConf2025 and confirmed keynote by @chrispiech!.
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ACM Learning@Scale 2025
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The 2025 ACM Learning at Scale Call for Papers is out!. Check out all Submission Guidelines and Important Dates: Did we mention we are in sunny Palermo, Sicily in 2025, co-located with @AIEDconf & @EDMConf2025?. @SusanRSinger @OlgaOvi @xaoch @Iriskie_Xia
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RT @CornellNews: What do LLMs write like? Researchers at @CornellCIS, @Stanford and @Penn found that #AI-generated college admissions essay….
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RT @aj_alvero: Sharing a paper just published in the Journal of Big Data! Studies have shown strong associations with writing and demograph….
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In addition to showing the cultural bias in GPT’s responses, we demonstrate a simple but effective control strategy to improve cultural alignment: cultural prompting, I.e. instructing the model to respond like someone from your region. It works best for the latest versions.
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PNAS Nexus
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Researchers concerned about cultural bias in large language models asked ChatGPT questions about values used in international surveys. All versions of the model answered like people in English-speaking and Protestant European countries. In PNAS Nexus:
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RT @PNASNexus: Researchers concerned about cultural bias in large language models asked ChatGPT questions about values used in internationa….
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RT @emmharv: 🌟Applying for a PhD @CornellInfoSci? Our student-run application feedback program is open NOW through Oct 31🌟. We're open to a….
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We are hiring at @CornellInfoSci ! Open rank: Cornell is a fantastic place to work, please consider applying and sharing this opportunity.
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Happy to share that @CornellInfoSci is hiring teaching faculty in all areas! Teaching Cornell students has been a wonderful experience. Please share this opportunity widely:
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RT @karen_ec_levy: Returning from perpetual Twitter hiatus to spread the word: @CornellInfoSci is hiring! Tenure-track hires at all levels….
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RT @OlgaOvi: Our SI on Advancing Equity and Inclusion in educational practices with AI-powered educational decision support systems (AI-EDS….
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1 year
What does the Life Cycle of Large Language Models look like? Check out our new BJET article mapping how LLM-based applications are developed and what biases can arise in each step. @JinsookLee1021 @cab938 @renzheyu @YannHicke
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📣Cornell Postdoc Position: Join our interdisciplinary, NSF-funded project on deterring objectionable speech online with @nataliebazarova @drewmargolin @difrad Details here: Thank you for sharing.
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RT @LearningAtScale: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Learning at Scale Conference are now available in the ACM Digital Library: .
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RT @Orson_Xu: 📢 Super excited to share that I'll be joining @Columbia @ColumbiaDBMI @columbiahci as an Assistant Professor in Jan'25!. Pls….
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What cultural values do GPT-4o, 4, 3.5, 3 express? Using World Values Survey questions, we find GPT consistently aligns with English-speaking countries/Protestant Europe. We show that Cultural Prompting improves alignment. @yan_ytyt @OlgaOvi @BakerEDMLab
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RT @LearningAtScale: The #las24ed program is available online: And if you haven't registered yet, make sure to tak….
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RT @LearningAtScale: Today is the last day to get #EarlyBird rates on registration for ACM Learning at Scale 2024 and.@EDMConf2024. Co-regi….
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RT @LearningAtScale: The list of accepted papers is now up on the L@S 2024 website!
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Looking forward to meeting people at the University of Puerto Rico @UPR_Oficial for their first Congress on AI in Education #AIED #AI #Education.
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