Education

Ph.D in Human-Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle (in-progress)
M.S. in Human-Centered Design and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle
B.S. in Computer Science with a Minor in Creative Writing, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Publications

Bias is a Math Problem, AI Bias is a Technical Problem: 10-year Literature Review of AI/LLM Bias Research Reveals Narrow [Gender-Centric] Conceptions of “Bias”, and Academia-Industry Gap

Sourojit Ghosh, and Kyra Wilson. (2025). Bias is a Math Problem, AI Bias is a Technical Problem: 10-year Literature Review of AI/LLM Bias Research Reveals Narrow [Gender-Centric] Conceptions of “Bias”, and Academia-Industry Gap. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 8(2), 1091-1106. https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36613.

Bias Amplification in Stable Diffusion’s Representation of Stigma Through Skin Tones and Their Homogeneity

Kyra Wilson, Sourojit Ghosh, and Aylin Caliskan. (2025). Bias Amplification in Stable Diffusion’s Representation of Stigma Through Skin Tones and Their Homogeneity. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 8(3), 2705-2717. https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i3.36750

Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators

Sourojit Ghosh, Sanjana Gautam, Pranav Venkit, and Avijit Ghosh. (2025). Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 8(2), 1107-1119. https://doi.org/10.1609/aies.v8i2.36614.

Empowering Engineering Graduates to Contribute towards Designing Safer Generative AI Tools through an Ethics Course

Sourojit Ghosh, and Sarah Coppola. (2025). Empowering Engineering Graduates to Contribute towards Designing Safer Generative AI Tools through an Ethics Course. Upcoming Publication, 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.

Integrating Theory and Practice for a More Student-Centered Design of a Design Foundations Course

Sourojit Ghosh, Arpita Bhattacharya, and Sarah Coppola. (2025). Integrating Theory and Practice for a More Student-Centered Design of a Design Foundations Course. Upcoming Publication, 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.

“They’ve Over-Emphasized That One Search”: Controlling Unwanted Content on TikTok’s For You Page

Julie Vera, and Sourojit Ghosh. (2025). “They’ve Over-Emphasized That One Search”: Controlling Unwanted Content on TikTok’s For You Page. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 221, 1–8.

Machine Translation, Large Language Models, and Generative AI in the University Classroom: Toward a Pedagogy of Care

Sourojit Ghosh, and Srishti Chatterjee. (2024). Machine Translation, Large Language Models, and Generative AI in the University Classroom: Toward a Pedagogy of Care. In E. Monzó-Nebot & V. Tasa-Fuster (Eds.), The Social Impact of Automating Translation, Routledge.

Interpretations, Representations, and Stereotypes of Caste within Text-to-Image Generators

Sourojit Ghosh. (2024). Interpretations, Representations, and Stereotypes of Caste within Text-to-Image Generators. Proceedings of the Seventh AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, p. 490-502.

“I don’t see myself represented here at all”: User Experiences of Stable Diffusion Outputs Containing Representational Harms across Gender Identities and Nationalities

Sourojit Ghosh, Nina Lutz, and Aylin Caliskan. (2024). “I don’t see myself represented here at all”: User Experiences of Stable Diffusion Outputs Containing Representational Harms across Gender Identities and Nationalities. Proceedings of the Seventh AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, p. 463-475.

Do Generative AI Models Output Harm While Representing Non-western Cultures: Evidence from a Community-Centered Approach

Sourojit Ghosh, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Sanjana Gautam, Shomir Wilson, and Aylin Caliskan. (2024). Do Generative AI Models Output Harm While Representing Non-Western Cultures: Evidence from a Community-Centered Approach. Proceedings of the Seventh AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, p. 476-489.

Co-Creating Inclusion: Designing a Living Inclusive Teaching Toolkit

Mina Zavary, and Sourojit Ghosh. (2024). Co-Creating Inclusion: Designing a Living Inclusive Teaching Toolkit. 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/48466.

ChatGPT as a Tool for Equitable Education in Engineering Classes

Sourojit Ghosh. (2024). ChatGPT as a Tool for Equitable Education in Engineering Classes. 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/48458.

Reflecting on Adapting Visual-Oriented Classes for Blind and Low-Vision Students

Sourojit Ghosh, Kunal Mehta, Maxwell Copoock, and Sarah Coppola. (2024). Reflecting on Adapting Visual-Oriented Classes for Blind and Low-Vision Students. 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. https://peer.asee.org/47928.

From Melting Pots to Misrepresentations: Exploring Harms in Generative AI

Sanjana Gautam, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, and Sourojit Ghosh. (2024). From Melting Pots to Misrepresentations: Exploring Harms in Generative AI. Upcoming Workshop Paper, CHI 2024.

Leveraging Community Support and Platform Affordances on a Path to More Active Participation: A Study of Online Fan Fiction Communities

Sourojit Ghosh, and Cecilia Aragon. (2024). "Leveraging Community Support and Platform Affordances on a Path to More Active Participation: A Study of Online Fan Fiction Communities". In "Fandom and Platforms," edited by Maria K. Alberto, Effie Sapuridis, and Lesley Willard, special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 42. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2024.2477..

This Class Isn’t Designed For Me: Recognizing Ableist Trends In Design Education, And Redesigning For An Inclusive And Sustainable Future

Sourojit Ghosh, and Sarah Coppola. (2024). This Class Isn’t Designed For Me: Recognizing Ableist Trends In Design Education, And Redesigning For An Inclusive And Sustainable Future, in Gray, C., Hekkert, P., Forlano, L., Ciuccarelli, P. (eds.), DRS2024: Boston, 23–28 June, Boston, USA. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2024.1070.

Misgendering and Assuming Gender in Machine Translation when Working with Low-Resource Languages

Sourojit Ghosh, and Srishti Chatterjee. (2024). Misgendering and Assuming Gender in Machine Translation when Working with Low-Resource Languages. In E. Monzó-Nebot & V. Tasa-Fuster (Eds.), Gendered Technology in Translation and Interpreting: Centering Rights in the Development of Language Technology, Routledge.

“Person” == Light-skinned, Western Man, and Sexualization of Women of Color: Stereotypes in Stable Diffusion

Sourojit Ghosh, and Aylin Caliskan. (2023). “Person” == Light-skinned, Western Man, and Sexualization of Women of Color: Stereotypes in Stable Diffusion. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 6971–6985, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Taking Stock of Concept Inventories in Computing Education: A Systematic Literature Review

Murtaza Ali, Sourojit Ghosh, Prerna Rao, Raveena Dhegaskar, Sophia Jawort, Alix Medler, Mengqi Shi and Sayamindu Dasgupta. (2023). Taking Stock of Concept Inventories in Computing Education: A Systematic Literature Review. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V.1 (ICER 23 V1), August 07--11, 2023, Chicago, IL, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 397–415. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568813.3600120

ChatGPT Perpetuates Gender Bias in Machine Translation and Ignores Non-Gendered Pronouns: Findings across Bengali and Five other Low-Resource Languages

Sourojit Ghosh and Aylin Caliskan. 2023. ChatGPT Perpetuates Gender Bias in Machine Translation and Ignores Non-Gendered Pronouns: Findings across Bengali and Five other Low-Resource Languages. In Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES 23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 901–912. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604672.

“I love you, my dear friend”: Analyzing the Role of Emotions in the Building of Friendships in Online Fanfiction Communities

Sourojit Ghosh, Niamh Froelich, and Cecilia Aragon. (2023). “I love you, my dear friend”: Analyzing the Role of Emotions in the Building of Friendships in Online Fanfiction Communities. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 466-485. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.

“Do we like this, or do we like like this?” : Reflections on a Human-Centered Machine Learning Approach to Sentiment Analysis

Sourojit Ghosh, Murtaza Ali, Anna Batra, Cheng Guo, Mohit Jain, Joseph Kang, Julia Kharchenko, Varun Suravajhela, Vincent Zhou, and Cecilia Aragon. (2023). “Do we like this, or do we like like this?” : Reflections on a Human-Centered Machine Learning Approach to Sentiment Analysis. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 63-82. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.

Generalized Cohen’s Kappa: A Novel Inter-rater Reliability Metric for Non-Mutually Exclusive Categories

Andrea Figueroa, Sourojit Ghosh, and Cecilia Aragon. (2023). Generalized Cohen’s Kappa: A Novel Inter-rater Reliability Metric for Non-Mutually Exclusive Categories. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 19-34. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023.

Making a Case for HyFlex Learning in Design Engineering Classes

Sourojit Ghosh, and Sarah Coppola. (2023). Making a Case for HyFlex Learning in Design Engineering Classes. In 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.

Establishing TikTok as a Platform for Informal Learning: Evidence from Mixed Methods Analysis of Creators and Viewers

Sourojit Ghosh, and Andrea Figueroa. 2023. Establishing TikTok as a Platform for Informal Learning: Evidence from Mixed-Methods Analysis of Creators and Viewers. In Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2431-2440. https://hdl.handle.net/10125/102931

Reflecting on Hybrid Learning in Studio-based Courses: Complications and Effectiveness during the Pandemic and Beyond

Sourojit Ghosh, and Sarah Coppola. (2022). Reflecting on Hybrid Learning in Studio-based Courses: Complications and Effectiveness during the Pandemic and Beyond. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 66(1), 2108–2112. https://doi.org/10.1177/1071181322661116

Recruitment, Admissions, Hiring, Retention, and Promotion: Mechanisms of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Erin K. Chiou, Richard J. Holden, Sourojit Ghosh, Yuliana Flores, and Rod D. Roscoe. (2022). Recruitment, Admissions, Hiring, Retention, and Promotion: Mechanisms of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) and Belonging in Higher Education. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 135-138. Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications, 2022.

The Persistence of Safety Silence: How Flight Deck Microcultures Influence the Efficacy of Crew Resource Management

Kimberly Perkins, Sourojit Ghosh, Julie Vera, Cecilia Aragon, and Adam Hyland. 2022. The Persistence of Safety Silence: How Flight Deck Microcultures Influence the Efficacy of Crew Resource Management. In International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.15394/ijaaa.2022.1728

Slanted Speculations:: Material Encounters with Algorithmic Bias

Gabrielle Benabdallah, Ashten Alexander, Sourojit Ghosh, Chariell Glogovac-Smith, Lacey Jacoby, Caitlin Lustig, Anh Nguyen, Anna Parkhurst, Kathryn Reyes, Neilly H. Tan, Edward Wolcher, Afroditi Psarra, and Daniela Rosner. 2022. Slanted Speculations: Material Encounters with Algorithmic Bias. In Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 85–99. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533449.

Not Just Cells in a Dataset: Imagining a Human-Centered Data Science Approach to Social Recommendation Algorithms (Workshop Paper)

Patterns of Patient and Caregiver Mutual Support Connections in an Online Health Community

Zachary Levonian, Marco Dow, Drew Erikson, Sourojit Ghosh, Hannah Miller Hillberg, Saumik Narayanan, Loren Terveen, and Svetlana Yarosh. 2021. Patterns of Patient and Caregiver Mutual Support Connections in an Online Health Community. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 4, CSCW3, Article 275 (December 2020), 46 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3434184.

Teaching

HCDE 560: Foundations of Human Centered Artificial Intelligence

This course explored rapid developments in the field of Generative AI, providing technical and non-technical explanations of key concepts for interdisciplinary students to build practical understanding.

HCDE 516: Experimental Research Methods

This course provided an introduction to conducting research via an experiment, based on a hypothesis established through human-subjects work, and applying statistical methods to interpret findings.

HCDE 313: User Research

This course introduced user research methods, how to apply them within engineering and design contexts, and how to effectively communicate the results of user research to diverse audiences.

HCDE 498: Special Topics [Human-Centeredness in Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges within the Design Process]

This course explored the usage of Generative Artificial Intelligence tools and Large Language Models in the User-Centered Design process, considering the various advantages and limitations they bring to the table.

HCDE 598: Special Topics [Human-Centeredness in Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges within the Design Process]

HCDE 419: Concepts in Human Computer Interaction

This course introduced students to a broad range of concepts in Human-Computer Interaction, beginning with its early roots in efforts to 'augment intellect' using computers and spanning other important paradigms such as ubiquitous computing, tangible computing, technology for behavior change, social computing, crowdsourcing, and accessibility.

HCDE 511: Information Visualization

This course covered the key design principles and techniques used in visualizing, exploring, and analyzing very large data sets, together with the perceptual principles that support them.

HCDE 515: Accessible and Inclusive Design

This course provided an introduction to designing, prototyping, and evaluating inclusive user interfaces that meet the needs of a diverse range of users — such as older adults, users with visual, cognitive, or motor impairments, and users who are deaf or hard of hearing.

HCDE 318: Introduction to User-Centered Design

This course explored the fundamentals of thinking like a user-centered designer, as students obtained hands-on experience in user research, ideation, prototyping, and evaluation of their own designed objects.

HCDE 298: Introductory Special Topics [Inclusive Design]

This course surveyed a range of methods in design and engineering that examine, support, and interrogate the question: What does it mean to design for all humans, and what practices contribut to building an inclusive society?

Talks

Integrating Theory and Practice for a More Student-Centered Design of a Design Foundations Course

June 22, 2025

Conference Presentation at ASEE, Toronto

Empowering Engineering Graduates to Contribute towards Designing Safer Generative AI Tools through an Ethics Course

June 22, 2025

Conference Presentation at ASEE, Toronto

Do Generative AI Models Output Harm While Representing Non-western Cultures: Evidence from a Community-Centered Approach

August 21, 2024

Poster Presentation at AIES, San Jose, CA

Interpretations, Representations, and Stereotypes of Caste within Text-to-Image Generators

August 21, 2024

Poster Presentation at AIES, San Jose, CA

“I don’t see myself represented here at all”: User Experiences of Stable Diffusion Outputs Containing Representational Harms across Gender Identities and Nationalities

August 21, 2024

Poster Presentation at AIES, San Jose, CA

This Class isn’t Designed for Me: Recognizing Ableist trends in Design Education, and Redesigning for an Inclusive and Sustainable future

July 24, 2024

Conference Presentation at DRS, Boston, MA

ChatGPT as a Tool for Equitable Education in Engineering Classes

July 24, 2024

Conference Presentation at ASEE, Portland, OR

Reflecting on Adapting Visual Oriented Classes for Blind and Low Vision Students

July 24, 2024

Conference Presentation at ASEE, Portland, OR

Machine Learning in Qualitative Coding

February 07, 2024

Guest Lecture at HCDE 312, Seattle, WA

“Person” == Light-skinned, Western Man, and Sexualization of Women of Color: Stereotypes in Stable Diffusion

November 12, 2023

Conference Presentation at EMNLP, Singapore

Research & Data Science in Fandom

October 07, 2023

Panel Presentation at GeekGirl Con, Seattle, WA

ChatGPT Perpetuates Gender Bias in Machine Translation and Ignores Non-Gendered Pronouns: Findings across Bengali and Five other Low-Resource Languages

August 08, 2023

Poster Presentation at AIES 2023, Montreal

“I love you, my dear friend”: Analyzing the Role of Emotions in the Building of Friendships in Online Fanfiction Communities

July 28, 2023

Conference Presentation at HCII 2023, remote

“Do we like this, or do we like like this?” : Reflections on a Human Centered Machine Learning Approach to Sentiment Analysis

July 24, 2023

Conference Presentation at HCII 2023, remote

Awards

University of Washington Excellence in Teaching Award (June 2025)
University of Washington Annual Graduate School Presidential Dissertation Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Social Professions (January 2025)
University of Washington Husky100, Class of 2024
Award of Excellence, Student Teaching, Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering (October 2023)
Student Teaching Award, College of Engineering, University of Washington (April 2023)

Leadership

PhD Representative, HCDE Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (2022 - present)
PhD Student Representative, HCDE Graduate Students Association (2020 - 2025)
Moderator, HCDE Sustained Dialogue Program (2021 - 2022)
PhD Representative, HCDE Chair’s Student Advisory Board (2020 - present)
Co-Champion, International HCDE Affinity Group (2020 - 2021)