Ashique KhudaBukhsh
Assistant Professor
Ashique KhudaBukhsh
Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Bio
Ashique KhudaBukhsh is an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Department and is affiliated with the ESL Global Cybersecurity Institute, where he directs the Social Insight Lab.
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.
Currently Teaching
In the News
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May 7, 2025
From Stereotype to Slur in Three Clicks: Inside AI’s Mental-Health Hate Machine
Mad in America references a study coauthored by Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, and second-year computing and information sciences Ph.D. student Arka Dutta about how AI language models can swiftly escalate from mild stereotypes to promoting harmful narratives about mental health.
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April 17, 2025
What Is Copilot? Everything You Need to Know About Microsoft's AI Tools
CNET speaks to Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor in the Department of Software Engineering, about the AI tools now available from Microsoft.
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March 28, 2025
RIT researchers use AI to uncover surprising trends in media coverage of police
A new study from RIT and Carnegie Mellon University experts is challenging a widely held belief about the media—that local news outlets have become more critical of the police in recent years.
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February 28, 2025
KhudaBukhsh publishes on media coverage of policing
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October 25, 2024
KhudaBukhsh featured in AI Magazine
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January 19, 2024
KhudaBukhsh findings featured by Montreal AI Ethics Institute
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January 24, 2023
Harper’s Index February 2023