Research

Studies, audits, and reproductions.

2026

Warmth & Competence in LLM Hiring

A mechanistic-interpretability study testing whether warmth and competence form linearly probeable directions in open-weight LLMs, and whether activation steering along those directions shifts hiring callback decisions.

Mechanistic InterpretabilityLLMHiring BiasConcept VectorsActivation SteeringPython
2026

Media Bias Pipeline

An end-to-end pipeline that turns English news articles into a fine-tuning-ready dataset for sentence-level media bias detection — RSS crawl, cleaning, a proxy classifier, and LLM+VLM annotation.

PythonNLPMedia BiasLLMVLMspaCy
2026

MBIB Quality Observatory

An audit of the Media Bias Identification Benchmark — label noise probes, near-duplicate detection, and LLM review across 8 tasks.

BenchmarkingCleanlabLLM Review
2025

Rec-Dating Project

A study of the rec-dating dataset as a role-based bipartite network, separating outgoing rating activity from received attention and applying HITS consistently.

NetworksHITSBipartitePython
2025

Community Notes X Rescue

Full analytical workflow for a paper on rescuing Community Notes stuck in 'Needs More Ratings' through clustering, rescue simulation, topic modeling, and LLM validation.

Community NotesClusteringTopic ModelingLLM