Jasmijn Bastings

Hi!

I am an Amsterdam-based researcher, writer, and photographer.

Research: My research revolves around Natural Language Processing (NLP), frequently intersecting with other disciplines to address bias, fairness, and interpretability. I am particularly interested in the interplay between gender, language, and technology, and my work is increasingly guided by the principles of feminist AI as I study how to build systems that mitigate harm and distribute the benefits of AI more broadly across society. I hold a PhD from the ILLC at the University of Amsterdam, where I was advised by Wilker Aziz, Ivan Titov, and Khalil Sima’an. I am also a firm believer in democratizing technology, which led me to co-develop two open-source projects: Joey NMT, a toolkit empowering novices around the world to build translation systems (700+ stars), and LIT, a platform for visual ML model understanding (3700+ stars).

Writing: I write about (queer) feminism and AI on transponder.blog.

Photography: See bastings.art and instagram.com/jasmijnbastings

Publications

Recent academic publications

Amplifying Trans and Nonbinary Voices: A Community-Centred Harm Taxonomy for LLMs. Eddie L. Ungless, Sunipa Dev, Cynthia L. Bennett, Rebecca Gulotta, Jasmijn Bastings, Remi Denton. ACL 2025.
A decade of gender bias in machine translation. Beatrice Savoldi, Jasmijn Bastings, Luisa Bentivogli, Eva Vanmassenhove. Cell Patterns, June 2025. Cover article.
MiTTenS: A Dataset for Evaluating Gender Mistranslation. Kevin Robinson, Sneha Kudugunta, Romina Stella, Sunipa Dev, Jasmijn Bastings. EMNLP 2024.
Low-Rank Adaptation for Multilingual Summarization: An Empirical Study. Chenxi Whitehouse, Fantine Huot, Jasmijn Bastings, Mostafa Dehghani, Chu-Cheng Lin, Mirella Lapata. Findings of NAACL, 2024.
Diagnosing AI explanation methods with folk concepts of behavior. Alon Jacovi, Jasmijn Bastings, Sebastian Gehrmann, Yoav Goldberg, Katja Filippova. JAIR 2023.
Dissecting Recall of Factual Associations in Auto-Regressive Language Models. Mor Geva, Jasmijn Bastings, Katja Filippova, Amir Globerson. EMNLP 2023.

See my full publication list on my Google Scholar profile.

Highlighted academic publications

We Need To Talk About Random Splits. Anders Søgaard, Sebastian Ebert, Jasmijn Bastings, Katja Filippova. 🏆 Honorable Mention for Best Short Paper. EACL, 2021.
The elephant in the interpretability room: Why use attention as explanation when we have saliency methods?. Jasmijn Bastings, Katja Filippova. BlackboxNLP 2020.
Interpretable neural predictions with differentiable binary variables. Jasmijn Bastings, Wilker Aziz, Ivan Titov. ACL 2019.
Joey NMT: A Minimalist NMT Toolkit for Novices. Julia Kreutzer, Jasmijn Bastings, Stefan Riezler. EMNLP 2019. [code]
Graph convolutional encoders for syntax-aware neural machine translation Jasmijn Bastings, Ivan Titov, Wilker Aziz, Diego Marcheggiani, Khalil Sima’an. EMNLP 2017.

You can find a full list of my publications on my Google Scholar profile.

Talks

Workshop Measuring and mitigating bias in AI, Amsterdam, 2026. Building a Community-Centred Harm Taxonomy for LLMs.
MilaNLP, Milan, 2024. Bits, Bats, and Bots: Deconstructing Gender in Language Technology.
Workplace Pride, Trans Awareness Week 2023. AI through the lens of LGBT+ identity

The Annotated Encoder-Decoder. Explains implementing RNN-based NMT models in PyTorch.

CV

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind. Amsterdam. Current.
PhD in (Language) AI, ILLC, University of Amsterdam. Defended 8 October 2020.
MSc in AI, University of Amsterdam. Cum Laude (US: with honor).
BSc in (Cognitive) AI, Utrecht University. Minor: Linguistics. Cum Laude (US: with honor).

Reviewing / Area Chair / Committees

I am/was currently Senior Area Chair (SAC) for: EMNLP (2026, track: Ethics, Bias, and Fairness, previous years: interpretability).
I was a co-organizer of: Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies 2024 (GITT 2024) (co-located with EAMT 2024), Blackbox NLP 2011 and 2022.
I was area chair (AC) / action editor (AE) for the following conferences: ACL, EMNLP, COLM, ARR, EACL, NAACL.
I reviewed for the following conferences and workshops: ACL, EMNLP, CoNNL, ICLR, MT Summit, WMT, BlackboxNLP, Debug ML, WNGT, RepL4NLP, SPNLP.

Contact

If you’d like to contact me please find my e-mail address on my most recent publication on Google Scholar.
Find me on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jasmijn.bastings.me
Here is my LinkedIn profile. Feel free to connect with me if we’ve met, or follow me if we haven’t met just yet. You can always send me an e-mail.
My code is on Github: github.com/bastings.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5445-4417