carolyn q zou

Hello! I'm a first-year PhD student in Stanford HCI/NLP, where I work with Michael Bernstein and Percy Liang. I also had the pleasure of doing a rotation with Diyi Yang. I am thankful for the generous support of the NSF GRFP and Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

My research centers human-AI interaction, with a focus on creating new tools for understanding human/AI behavior at scale. I'm broadly interested in pluralistic alignment, simulation environments, and the societal impacts of AI.

I received my BS in communication studies at Northwestern, where I was advised by Aaron Shaw. I previously studied philosophy, with a focus on semiotics, under the guidance of Takeo Rivera. I was also a high school dropout.