Ashique KhudaBukhsh - Featured Faculty 2023

Dr. KhudaBukhsh's current research lies at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and AI for Social Impact, as applied to: (i) globally important events arising in linguistically diverse regions, requiring methods to tackle practical challenges involving multilingual, noisy, social media texts; (ii) polarization in the context of the current US political crisis; and (iii) auditing generative AI systems and platforms for unintended harms. In addition to having his research accepted at top artificial intelligence conferences and journals, his work has also received widespread international media attention, including coverage from The New York Times, BBC, Wired, Times of India, The Indian Express, The Daily Mail, VentureBeat, and Digital Trends.

Dr. KhudaBukhsh has been selected for the New Faculty Highlight program at AAAI 2024 and was the recipient of the RIT GGCIS Emerging Scholar Award in 2023. He enjoys melding teaching and research and, in 2022, he offered a course that studied contemporary US politics through the lens of cutting-edge AI and NLP techniques. This course was offered simultaneously at RIT and CMU (team-taught with Dr. Mark Kamlet, a noted political scientist), and students from both schools conducted collaborative research. KhudaBukhsh received his PhD in artificial intelligence in 2017 from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and started his tenure-track position at RIT in 2021.

Ashique KhudaBukhsh
Assistant Professor
Department of Software Engineering
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences