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Aakanksha .

Critic · DISC type C
Member of Technical Staff, Safety at Cohere
📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States

Aakanksha is a Member of Technical Staff on the Safety team at Cohere, focusing on multilingual AI safety and model merging. A graduate of New York University with a Masters in Science, her work involves red-teaming language models to address global and local harms across many languages.

She is passionate about the intellectual freedom of research, enjoying the daily process of experimentation and discovery. In her university days, she co-developed an "emotion-based music player" for a hackathon, showcasing an early interest in creative and user-centric technology applications.

Her first first-author research paper on multilingual AI safety was accepted at the prestigious EMNLP 2024 conference.

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Experience
3 Years
Current Role
Member of Technical Staff, Safety
Location
New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Aakanksha shows up

Objective Thinker
ROI Driven
Information Seeker

They like to do things independently and don’t look for support from others. They choose to analyze logically and value facts to emotions. They don’t appreciate bells and whistles unless backed by data.

Priorities

Topics Aakanksha cares about

Multilingual AI Safety
Her primary focus at Cohere and the topic of her first-author paper, addressing safety alignment across different languages and cultures.
Responsible AI
Demonstrated through her work in AI safety and her recent speaking engagement at the Responsible AI Ecosystem Summit.
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Career

Work history

9-2024
Member of Technical Staff, Safety
Cohere
1-2024 - 9-2024
Research Scholar
Cohere
7-2023 - 1-2024
Software Engineer
Barclays
2-2023 - 5-2023
CS Research Mentorship Fellow
Google
6-2022 - 8-2022
Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon
In the press

Media appearances

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Education
8-2021 - 5-2023
Master of Science - MS
New York University
2016 - 2020
Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech.
Amity University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

C

Calculativeness (C)

Calculativeness (C) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to be cautious, systematic and analytical. Those scoring high tend to emphasise quality and accuracy.

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