Andre Ye

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I am an undergraduate at the University of Washington studying philosophy and computer science. My interest is in the philosophy of technology and AI – specifically political/ethical, ontological, and cultural dimensions. Some questions which excite me are: How to models reflect and distort cultural differences among humans? Does AI stand for universality, and what ethical and political difficulties arise? What are complications with value pluralism in AI?

Currently, I am working with Prof. Ranjay Krishna, Prof. Amy Zhang, and PhD student Sebastin Santy on cross-cultural perceptual differences in vision understanding models. Previously, I worked in the Social Futures Lab on uncertainty representation in segmentation models, the Najafian Lab on the segmentation of kidney structures, and Deepgram on curriculum learning in large transcription models. I have written a few essays in philosophy, two books on deep learning, a little bit of fiction, and many data science articles.

Outside of academics, I enjoy listening to lectures by Slavoj Zizek (my favorite undead philosopher), playing piano, learning Russian and French, and thinking about swimming in the eternally incomplete UW pool. I’m always up for a chat, so feel free to reach out.

news

May 31, 2023 I presented a poster on the Confidence Contours at Allen School Masters and Undergraduate Research Showcase! View the poster here.
May 19, 2023 I presented on my project Confidence Contours at the UW Undergraduate Research Symposium. Watch the talk on YouTube or view photos on Instagram.
Sep 15, 2022 My second book, Deep Learning for Tabular Data, hit #1 in new releases for Information Theory and #4 in new releases for Artificial Intelligence on Amazon. Feel free to reach out if you would like a copy of a chapter or the book!
Sep 15, 2022 My second book, Deep Learning for Tabular Data, hits #1 in new releases for Information Theory and #4 in new releases for Artificial Intelligence on Amazon.
Aug 7, 2022 Interactive Intelligence has received $24k of funding from the UW STF fund!