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I am an incoming PhD student at MIT EECS, advised by Mitchell Gordon. I received by bachelor’s in Computer Science (BS) and Philosophy (BA w/ honors) with minors in mathematics and history. In undergrad, I was very fortunate to be advised by Amy Zhang and Ranjay Krishna in CS and Rose Novick in philosophy. I was also mentored by Jared Moore, Quan Ze (Jim) Chen, Sebastin Santy, Matt Wallingford, Carina Fourie, and others.

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CS Work

Agonistic Image Generation: Unsettling the Hegemony of Intention
Andrew Shaw*, Andre Ye*, Ranjay Krishna, Amy X. Zhang
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2025
Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Improves Visual Representations
Andre Ye, Sebastin Santy, Jena D. Hwang, Amy X. Zhang, Ranjay Krishna
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2025
Language Models as Critical Thinking Tools: A Case Study of Philosophers
Andre Ye, Jared Moore, Rose Novick, Amy X. Zhang
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM) 2024
LLMs grasp morality in concept
Mark Pock*, Andre Ye*, Jared Moore
Moral Psychology and Philosophy Workshop, NeurIPS 2023
Confidence Contours
Andre Ye, Quan Ze Chen, Amy Zhang
AAAI Human Computation (HCOMP) 2023
🏆 Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award
A Roadmap to Pluralistic Alignment
Taylor Sorenson, Jared Moore, Jillian Fisher, Mitchell Gordon, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Christopher Michael Rytting, Andre Ye, Liwei Jiang, Ximing Lu, Nouha Dziri, Tim Althoff, Yejin Choi
International Conference for Machine Learning (ICML) 2024

Philosophy Writings

Commentary: Who are you to philosophy?
Andre Ye
Garden of Ideas, Volume 4, 2025 — Issue 1
And then the Hammer Broke: Reflections on Machine Ethics from Feminist Philosophy of Science
Andre Ye
Pacific University Philosophy Conference, April 2024
Wor(k/d)play
Mark Pock*, Andre Ye*
Garden of Ideas, Volume 2, 2023 — Issue 1
The Wartime State and the Cigarette: Darkness and Temporality in Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Andre Ye
The Explicator, Volume 80, 2022 - Issue 1-2, pages 30-33

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2025-?
B.A., Philosophy with Honors
University of Washington, 2021-2025
Minor in History.
B.S., Computer Science
University of Washington, 2021-2025
Minor in Mathematics.
Early Entrance Program
Robinson Center, University of Washington
Admission to university at 14

Recognition & Scholarships

2025
• Fellow, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans
• Awardee, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
• Fellow, Ashar Aziz Presidential Fellowship (MIT)
• Finalist, Hertz Foundation Fellowship
• Gonfalonier (Banner Carrier) for the College of Arts and Sciences, 150th University of Washington Commencement
• UW College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Medal (for the Social Sciences)
• UW CSE Outstanding Senior
• UW Philosophy Department Outstanding Graduating Senior
• UW CSE Best Senior Thesis Award (submitted by co-first author Andrew Shaw)
2024
• UW Philosophy Department Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar
2023
• CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Finalist
• Mary Gates Research Scholar
• Phi Beta Kappa Scholar
• Philosophy Department Honors

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, CSE [160, 163, 311]
Allen School of CSE, University of Washington, 2022-2025
Intro and intermediate Python programming, discrete math for CS. 7 quarters.
Teaching Assistant, English Composition and Literary Analysis
Robinson Center, University of Washington, 2022-2024
2 years
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Machine Learning
The Coding School, 2022-2023
1 year

News

Undergrad Questions the AI Answer
University of Washington Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs
UW undergraduate with interdisciplinary AI focus earns fellowship of up to $90,000 for graduate study
University of Washington Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs
2025 Dean's Medalists, Energized & Inspiring
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences
For these nationally recognized Allen School undergraduates, research impact is its own reward
University of Washington Allen School News

Academic Service & Volunteering

Reviewer
• 2024 CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work)
• 2023 NeurIPS Moral Psychology and Moral Philosophy Workshop
• 2023 ICML AI + HCI Workshop
Panelist & Host
• 2024 Allen School Direct Admits, Undergrad Research Panelist
• 2022, 2023 Robinson Center Student Panelist
• 2024 Robinson Center Research Panelist, Student Host
Volunteer Data Scientist
Coronawhy, April 2020 - June 2020

Books

Modern Deep Learning Design and Applications
Andre Ye
Apress (Springer Nature)
Modern Deep Learning for Tabular Data
Andre Ye, Andy Wang
Apress (Springer Nature)

Misc. Work

AyahuascaNet: Rigorously Investigating Hallucination in Large Language Models with Hardcore Psychedelic Drugs
SIGBOVIK 2023
How does the AI community pronounce 'epoch'? A semirigorous sociolinguistic survey
SIGBOVIK 2024
ITF;)LM: Innocuous Table Formatting ;) with Language Models
SIGBOVIK 2024
Mobiod Streams
Digital Art
A Novel Approach to Segment Specialized Annotations in Electron Microscopy Images of Glomerular Podocytes
David Smerkous, Andre Ye, Behzad Najafian
Najafian Lab for Kidney Pathology, UW Medicine
Emergent Language: Independent AI Development of a Language-Like Syntax
Alec Bunn, Amelia Johnson, Andre Ye, Yegor Kuznetzov, Eric Xia
Interactive Intelligence Research Group, Paul G. Allen School

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