Rasika Bhalerao
(she/her/hers)
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research interests
- Ethical computing
- Natural language processing and information retrieval
- Security and privacy
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, New York University
- BS in Statistics and Applied & Computational Math Sciences (Discrete Math and Algorithms), University of Washington
Biography
Rasika Bhalerao is an assistant teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She earned her doctorate in computer science from New York University. At Northeastern, her area of teaching includes the Align program, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.
Bhalerao is a part of various organizations, including the Society of Women Engineers, Climate Change AI, Cornell Tech’s Clinic to End Tech Abuse, and ACM SIGCSE. Outside of teaching, she is learning Spanish and Mandarin, and loves to rock climb.
Recent publications
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What to Expect When You’re Accessing: An Exploration of User Privacy Rights in People Search Websites
Citation: Kejsi Take, Jordyn Young, Rasika Bhalerao, Kevin Gallagher , Andrea Forte, Damon McCoy, Rachel Greenstadt. (2024). What to Expect When You're Accessing: An Exploration of User Privacy Rights in People Search Websites Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2024, 311-326. https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2024-0118 -
My Learnings from Allowing Large Language Models in Introductory Computer Science Classes
Citation: Rasika Bhalerao. (2024). My Learnings from Allowing Large Language Models in Introductory Computer Science Classes SIGCSE (2), 1574-1575. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626253.3635511 -
The Digital-Safety Risks of Financial Technologies for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Citation: Rosanna Bellini, Kevin Lee, Megan A. Brown, Jeremy Shaffer, Rasika Bhalerao, Thomas Ristenpart. (2023). The Digital-Safety Risks of Financial Technologies for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence USENIX Security Symposium. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/bellini -
Pretraining Language Models with Human Preferences
Citation: Tomasz Korbak, Kejian Shi, Angelica Chen, Rasika Bhalerao, Christopher L. Buckley, Jason Phang, Samuel R. Bowman, Ethan Perez. (2023). Pretraining Language Models with Human Preferences CoRR, abs/2302.08582. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.08582 -
Ethics and Efficacy of Unsolicited Anti-Trafficking SMS Outreach
Citation: Rasika Bhalerao, Nora McDonald, Hanna Barakat, Vaughn Hamilton, Damon McCoy, Elissa M. Redmiles. (2022). Ethics and Efficacy of Unsolicited Anti-Trafficking SMS Outreach Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact., 6, 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1145/3555083 -
Libel Inc: An Analysis of the Libel Site Ecosystem
Citation: Rasika Bhalerao, Damon McCoy. (2022). Libel Inc: An Analysis of the Libel Site Ecosystem EuroS&P Workshops, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00019 -
Ethical Practices for Security Research with At-Risk Populations
Citation: Rasika Bhalerao, Vaughn Hamilton, Allison McDonald, Elissa M. Redmiles, Angelika Strohmayer. (2022). Ethical Practices for Security Research with At-Risk Populations EuroS&P Workshops, 546-553. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00065 -
Learning Outcomes and Assessments for Ethical Computing
Citation: Rasika Bhalerao, Emanuelle Burton, Stacy A. Doore, Judy Goldsmith. (2022). Learning Outcomes and Assessments for Ethical Computing SIGCSE (2), 1182. https://doi.org/10.1145/3478432.3499170 -
CrowS-Pairs: A Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Masked Language Models
Citation: Nikita Nangia, Clara Vania, Rasika Bhalerao, Samuel R. Bowman. (2020). CrowS-Pairs: A Challenge Dataset for Measuring Social Biases in Masked Language Models EMNLP (1), 1953-1967. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.emnlp-main.154
