👩🏫 I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University CSEN.
👩🎬 Director of the Inclusive and Multimodal AI (AIM) Lab at Santa Clara University.
🎙️ Co-host and organizer of the ACL Mentorship global panels with mentors from academia and industry, recorded and open to everyone.
🎓 I completed my Ph.D. and Postdoc in Computer Science in the LIT lab at the University of Michigan in August 2022.
🔭 I've worked in AI research at Meta (FAIR; x2), Amazon (Prime Video), Bosch, and Telenav (Open Street Map and algorithms for self-driving cars).
💬 My research focus is on Multimodal Equitable AI. Publications and code can be found on Google Scholar
- MentorQA — multilingual mentorship-focused QA beyond factual correctness. 📄 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.17173
- MemeXGen — cross-cultural meme transcreation (Chinese ↔ US), studying how multimodal humor adapts across cultures while preserving intent and meaning. 📄 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.02510
- MosAIG — multicultural text-to-image generation benchmark evaluating how well generative models represent diverse cultural identities. 📄 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15972
I'm looking to collaborate on AI4Good ❤️, applying research to real-world settings.
📫 Feel free to contact me! oignat@scu.edu
