Hi! It's me, Sushrita Rakshit 👋

Thanks for stopping by! I am an incoming PhD student at Johns Hopkins University, where I will be advised by Kristina Gligorić. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a software and machine learning engineer at Verizon. I earned my BSE in Computer Science from University of Michigan, where I worked with Prof. David Jurgens in the Blablablab and collaborated with Prof. Jonathan Gratch at the University of Southern California. During my gap year, I collaborated with Hua Shen at New York University.

My research focuses on how we can capture human attitudes and values at scale using language models, and inversely, the validity of LLMs as human auxiliaries. Previously, I accomplished this by studying LLM dialogue completion, emotion detection in human-human disputes, and exploring values that guide AI responses in human-AI interaction.

Outside of research, I'm an avid cook and cat lover. I've fostered 3 cats during my gap year, and I have a long-term goal of fostering 100 cats in my lifetime. I'm also an avid photographer (with my iPhone 16). Here's my digital scrapbook.