Katy Felkner Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, California, United States

LLM Fairness and Bias, JAN. 2022 – PRESENT - Design novel, community-sourced benchmark datasets for detecting anti-LGBTQ+ and antisemitic bias in LLMs - Develop, distribute, and analyze two large-scale community surveys to inform LLM bias benchmarks - Develop finetuning methods to mitigate anti-LGBTQ+ bias in LLMs - Analyze LLM capacity to assist humans in fairness benchmark development- Advisor/PI: Jonathan May DARPA ReMATH, JAN. 2021 – JUN. 2022 - Built and evaluated NMT models for extraction of symbolic math from assembly code and bit-vector expressions - Developed novel metrics for evaluation of NMT-generated mathematical expressions Border Translation Project, AUG. 2020 – DEC. 2021 - Built and evaluated neural machine translation systems for extremely low-resource languages - Developed baseline NMT system for K'iche', a Mayan indigenous language, with intended application of helping NGOs provide legal assistance to immigrants and asylum seekers.

- Collected 750,000 lines of non-secret syslog data using a 20-node virtual compute cluster - Tested a variety of word embedding and clustering algorithms to extract natural language features from supercomputer syslog - Showed that these natural language features can be used to improve HPC node failure detection and prediction - Mentor: Elisabeth Moore

Norman, Ok

Develop and test a task for drone programming competitions to familiarize high school students with computer vision technology. IDEA Lab is OU's machine learning and artificial intelligence group.

Norman, Ok

Assist in the creation of a searchable online database of Latin texts. Write scripts in Python to parse HTML documents containing Latin prose and poetry and encode critical data about texts in XML, reducing time to encode by a factor of 400. Presented at National Conference on Undergraduate Research (April 2018) and Classical Association of the Midwest and South (April 2018). Abstract accepted to Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting (January 2019). Only undergraduate student invited to attend the National Endowment for the Humanities Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities at Tufts University (July 2018).

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Prototyped a menstrual cycle tracking feature within MyChart for iOS to allow patients to share cycle data with providers. Designed and implemented server and client side data structures to save cycle data to the patient's medical record. Built four complete and interactive user-interface screens and partial prototypes of several others. Conducted user research, including about 100 internal survey responses and 5 user interviews.

Norman, Ok

Tutored college algebra, precalculus, and business calculus. Met weekly or biweekly with 10 students to reinforce concepts taught in class, answer questions, work extra problems, and help them prepare for exams. Selected as Tutor of the Month for December 2016.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Computer Science

Bs, Ba, Computer Science And Letters, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Alpha Sigma Kappa - Women in Technical Studies, Crimson Club, Out in STEM, Engineers Serving Others, Tau Beta.