Shiran Dudy

Hi, I’m Shiran — I research the risks AI systems pose to equity and access, and I design AI tools that center the people they’re meant to serve.

I’m a Research Scientist at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI, where I specialize in Responsible AI specifically via auditing AI systems as a socio-technical system (having their societal impact in mind), and propose guardrails to protect end-users. I’m also building and experimenting with AI tools to strenthen and empower users to enhance our democracy.

What I do

Guardrailing AI: I audit AI systems to uncover what they get wrong—and who gets left out. That means examining how generative AI represents (or misrepresents) non-dominant cultures, evaluating how AI-powered search shapes access to real-world opportunities, and measuring the community impact of AI-driven services like Uber in collaboration with Eticas.

Strenthening Democracy: I also lead the Tech Policy Tracker, making federal and state AI policy accessible to everyday people—because these decisions affect all of us, and everyone deserves a seat at the table. In addition, I have employed participatory approaches using tools as Pol.is to promote more equitable governance in communities.

As technical lead for RAI consulting at EAI, I help companies build AI that’s safe, robust, and equitable.

Email: shirdu2 at gmail dot com

news

May 22, 2026	I had the pleasure to partner with BU!Spark students to collaborate with me on building a policy tracker for the phone-free school movement. Here is the final outcome teaser📊📱
May 7, 2026	I was invited to present my portfolio on the Future Faculty Workshop organized by the University of Notre Dame! here’s my poster 🎉
Apr 24, 2026	We got our paper accepted to FAccT 2026! “Taking Stock at FAccT”: Using Participatory Design to Co-Create a Vision for the Fairness, Accountability and Transparency Community” 🎉
Feb 6, 2026	It was a pleasure to speak at the Future of Science Seminar where I led a conversation on “Navigating Risk - From Awareness to Accountability.” We examined the multi-tiered harms of AI systems across individuals, communities, and society at large, as well as inspiring accountability initiatives from Consumer Reports, Eticas, Radical Exchange and DataMined, sparking important discussions on new mechanisms to hold AI companies accountable 🛡️⚖️
Oct 7, 2025	I had a really great time at Notre Dame RISE AI summit. I gave a talk about how many of our epistemic systems promote single view approach, and why promoting plurality in search systems (as well as LLMs) may offer an antidote to this concern. The world is complex and current personalization techniques are narrowing our understanding of it🔍👁️👁️

latest posts

Jan 4, 2026	The Broader Context of Algorithmic Fairness: The Two-Tiered Society
Apr 24, 2025	Is this AI made for me? (part 2)
Apr 24, 2025	Is this AI made for me? (part 1)

selected publications

"Taking Stock at FAccT": Using Participatory Design to Co-Create a Vision for the Fairness, Accountability and Transparency Community

Shiran Dudy, Jan Simson, and Yanan Long

arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.16224, 2026

Bib PDF

@article{dudy2026taking,
  title = {"Taking Stock at FAccT": Using Participatory Design to Co-Create a Vision for the Fairness, Accountability and Transparency Community},
  author = {Dudy, Shiran and Simson, Jan and Long, Yanan},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.16224},
  year = {2026},
}

Unequal Opportunities: Examining the Bias in Geographical Recommendations by Large Language Models

Shiran Dudy, Thulasi Tholeti, Resmi Ramachandranpillai, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2025

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{dudy2025unequal,
  title = {Unequal Opportunities: Examining the Bias in Geographical Recommendations by Large Language Models},
  author = {Dudy, Shiran and Tholeti, Thulasi and Ramachandranpillai, Resmi and Ali, Muhammad and Li, Toby Jia-Jun and Baeza-Yates, Ricardo},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},
  pages = {1499--1516},
  year = {2025},
  award = {Honorable Mention Award},
}

Analyzing Cultural Representations of Emotions in LLMs Through Mixed Emotion Survey

Shiran Dudy, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Ryoko Kitajima, and 1 more author

In 2024 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) , 2024

Bib Code

@inproceedings{dudy2024analyzing,
  author = {Dudy, Shiran and Ahmad, Ibrahim Said and Kitajima, Ryoko and Lapedriza, Agata},
  booktitle = { 2024 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) },
  title = { Analyzing Cultural Representations of Emotions in LLMs Through Mixed Emotion Survey },
  year = {2024},
  pages = {346-354},
  doi = {10.1109/ACII63134.2024.00044},
  url = {https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ACII63134.2024.00044},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
  address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
  award = {Best Paper Award},
}