Tae Emmerson

/teɪ/; pronounced tay
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I am a remote research assistant affiliated with the Jinesis AI lab at the University of Toronto, where I work under the supervision of Professor Zhijing Jin. My work interests span AI safety, alignment, and reasoning.

I graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2024. While earning my degree, I worked part-time as a researcher and engineer at Signature Diagnostics with Professor Paul Cohen. After graduating, I was fortunate to work with Professor Adriana Kovashka and Professor Ryan Shi.

Publications

A Multimodal Recaptioning Framework to Account for Perceptual Diversity Across Languages in Vision-Language Modeling
Kyle Buettner, Tae Emmerson, Adriana Kovashka IJCNLP-AACL'25 | International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing & Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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Towards Automated Scoping of AI for Social Good Projects
Tae Emmerson, Rayid Ghani, Ryan Shi
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B.Sc. Computer Science
University of Pittsburgh
2021 - 2024
Jinesis AI
University of Toronto
2025 - Present