Jamelle.
Research Scientist.
Growing up, I was one of those kids who never stopped talking and asking questions. What a privilege it is that I now get to question everything.
Areas: Machine Learning, Algorithmic Alignment / Fairness / Safety / Transparency
Education
Harvard University (2024)
PhD in Applied Mathematics
Advisors: David C. Parkes (Harvard), Berk Ustun (UCSD)
Brown University (2016)
BS in Physics, BA in Africana Studies
Select Experiences
Meta. (current)
Research Scientist @ FAIR
Google. (Summer 2023)
PhD Research Intern @ Core ML
Microsoft Research. (Summer 2022)
PhD Research Intern @ Fairness, Accountability, Transparency & Ethics (FATE)
Harvard College: Lowell House. (2019 - 2022)
Chair of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, In-residence Undergrad Advisor
Publications (see google scholar)
Computer Science
Mysterious Projections: Multimodal LLMs Gain Domain-Specific Visual Capabilities Without Richer Cross-Modal Projections
Gaurav Verma, Minje Choi, Kartik Sharma, Jamelle Watson-Daniels, Sejoon Oh, Srijan Kumar(ACL 2024)
Predictive Churn with the Set of Good Models
Jamelle Watson-Daniels, Flavio du Pin Calmon, Alexander D'Amour, Carol Long, David C. Parkes, Berk Ustun
(AFT Workshop @ NeurIPS 2023)Algorithmic Fairness and Color-blind Racism: Navigating the Intersection
Jamelle Watson-Daniels
(in progress)Jamelle Watson-Daniels, Solon Barocas, Jake M. Hofman, Alexandra Chouldechova
FAccT 2023 - ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency [oral presentation]Predictive Multiplicity in Probabilistic Classification
Jamelle Watson-Daniels, David C. Parkes, Berk UstunAAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023 [Selected for oral presentation]
An Analysis of Emotions and the Prominence of Positivity in #BlackLivesMatter Tweets
Anjalie Field, Chan Young Park, Antonio Theophilo, Jamelle Watson-Daniels, Yulia Tsvetkov
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(35) 2022
Physics
Magnetic Drilling Enhances Intra-nasal Transport of Particles into Rodent Brain 2019.
Test Beam Demonstration of Silicon Microstrip Modules with Transverse Momentum Discrimination 2018.
Characterisation of Irradiated Thin Silicon Sensors for the CMS Phase II Pixel Upgrade 2017.
P-Type Silicon Strip Sensors for the New CMS Tracker at HL-LHC 2017.
Mechanical Stability of the CMS Strip Tracker Measured with a Laser Alignment System 2017.
Miscellaneous
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2020)
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship (2019)
Brown University Commencement Orator (May 2016)
Joslin Award for student leadership (May 2016)
Mildred Widgoff Award (for excellence in physics thesis preparation May 2016)
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”