Anjishnu Mukherjee

Anjishnu Mukherjee

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈdʒɪʃnuː/ (un-JISH-noo)

Email me amukher6 at gmu dot edu

I am currently on the 2027 job market for postdoctoral and tenure-track positions.

I am a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at George Mason University, advised by Antonis Anastasopoulos and Ziwei Zhu in the GMU NLP Lab.

Research directions

AI increasingly mediates how people access information and understand one another across linguistic and cultural boundaries. My research asks how we can build AI systems that work equitably beyond dominant languages and cultures. I pursue this goal through three connected directions:

  1. Understanding multilingual and multicultural AI
    1. Double Trouble (EMNLP '26)
    2. Tower of Babel (COLM '26)
    3. Global Voices (EMNLP '23)
  2. Adapting text and image generation to local contexts
    1. MAPLE (EMNLP '26)
    2. Crossroads (WACV '25)
    3. Global Gallery (NAACL '24)
  3. Mitigating social bias
    1. KnowBias (ICML '26)
    2. South Asian biases (TrustNLP@ACL '26)
    3. BiasDora (EMNLP '24)
    4. Breaking Bias (AIES '24)

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Updates

    Selected Publications

    Selected peer-reviewed and under-review research. Full list on Google Scholar

    Mentees

    High school

    1. Lauren Chen

      Syosset High School

      Multilingual and multi-attribute cultural steering for LLMs · project

    2. Hasini Jasthi

      Thomas Jefferson (TJHSST)

      Accent and dialect disparities in voice assistants, focusing on South and Southeast Asian English

    Undergraduate

    1. Anubhav Maity

      IIT Roorkee Qualcomm

      Som Shekhar Sharma

      IIT Roorkee InMobi

      Akshat Sharma

      IIT Roorkee Glance

      Cultural adaptation for Indian food contexts (final-year project) · project

    Graduate · M.S.

    1. Mamnuya Rinki

      GMU IntraFi

      South Asian bias in multilingual, open-ended LLM generations (M.S. thesis) · paper

    2. Samruddhi Deshmukh

      GMU

      Abhi Krishna

      GMU SyncoreLabs

      Auditing cultural representation in text-to-image models (AI, Power & Society course project) · report

    3. Sharanya Garika

      GMU

      Aksh Patel

      GMU Aireon

      Intersectional bias across Indo-Aryan languages (Advanced NLP course project) · slides

    Teaching

    Spring 2023
    Fall 2022

    CS 112 · Introduction to Python Programming

    Teaching Assistant · George Mason University

    Talks & Service

    Invited talks

    1. Crossroads of Continents · WACV, Tucson · slides
    2. Tutorial: Diffusion Models · Advanced NLP guest lecture, George Mason · slides
    3. Multilingual socio-cultural biases · University of Toronto invited speaker series · Remote · slides
    4. Global Gallery · MASC-SLL at Johns Hopkins · slides
    5. Cross-Lingual Biases and Cultural Understanding in LLMs · Notre Dame NLP seminar · Remote · slides

    Academic service

    1. Reviewer · COLM · AIES
    2. Reviewer · ACL Rolling ReviewACL · EMNLP · NAACL · EACL
    3. Sub-reviewer · COLM · AIES
    4. Workshop reviewer · AfricaNLP · DravidianLangTech · EACL SRW · NewInML · WiNLP · LT-EDI
    5. Journal reviewer · ACM TIST

    Awards

    1. Distinguished Academic Achievement AwardGeorge Mason University · M.S. in Computer Science
    2. Outstanding ReviewerEMNLP
    3. Outstanding GTA AwardGeorge Mason University · Advanced NLP
    4. Summer Graduate Research Award (Awarded $8,500)George Mason University · Multilingual socio-cultural bias evaluation
    5. DAAD WISE Scholarship (Awarded $3,000)German Academic Exchange Service · Computer Graphics project on real-time collision detection