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Basics

Name Kuleen Sasse
Label Graduate Student & Researcher
Email ksasse1@jh.edu

Education

  • 2025.08 - 2030

    Baltimore, MD

    PhD
    Johns Hopkins University
    Computer Science
  • 2021.08 - 2025.05

    Baltimore, MD

    Bachelor of Science
    Johns Hopkins University
    Computer Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics (Minor)

Awards

Work

  • 2024.05 - 2025.05

    Laurel, MD

    LLM Research Intern
    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
    • Led methods to improve LLM long-video understanding
    • Directed data curation for APL's first LLM from scratch
    • Created 150+ web scrapers for high-quality pretraining PDFs
    • Built novel ensemble of PDF OCR models for pipeline
  • 2024.01 - 2025.05

    Boston, MA

    Research Assistant
    Mass General Brigham
    • Measuring demographic fairness and bias and its robustness in vision language models (VLMs)
    • Developing steering methods to reduce bias and increase robustness in VLMs
    • Leveraging sparse autoencoders (SAEs) for interpretable classification
    • Investigating models giving medical misinformation
  • 2023.01 - Present

    Baltimore, MD

    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Johns Hopkins University
    • Researched and evaluated demographic fairness of LLMs in ICL settings
    • Led project on detecting novel political dog whistles in large social media corpora
    • Developing lightweight multi-axis controllable summarization methods
  • 2022.05 - 2024.05

    Laurel, MD

    NLP Research Engineering Intern
    Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab
    • Led a project developing new metrics and adversarial sampling methods for AI text detection
    • Built software to curate ontologies from unstructured documents
    • Developed 20,000+ line no code AutoML tool, securing $40k follow-on funding and public release
    • Co-developed research proposal advancing to funding final round
    • Optimized communication simulation with 4x speedup
    • Evaluated data management platforms for government cost savings
  • 2021.06 - 2024.06

    Fairfax, VA

    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    George Mason University
    • Mined Twitter for vaccine hesitancy signals to complement survey data
    • Co-authored PLOS ONE paper
  • 2020.02 - Present

    Birmingham, AL

    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    University of Alabama Birmingham
    • Developed methods to enhance in-domain/out-of-domain performance in biomedical NER and NEN tools
    • Developing synthetic data generation package to enhance neural bio-clinical IE models to replace MetaMap
    • Contributed to LitCoin competition team (hyperparameter tuning, NER architectures)
    • Constructed 40M-edge knowledge graph from PubMed abstracts for GNN-based drug repurposing

Volunteer

  • 2024.01 - 2025.05
    Avionics Subsystem Lead
    Johns Hopkins University Rocketry Club
    • Led team of 6 engineers on rocket electronics/software
    • Built electronics bays for two-stage rocket to 10,000 ft
    • Built electronics bay for safely returning a rocket going mach up to 17,000 ft
    • Created GPS tracking systems
    • Designed data acquisition for rocket motor testing
  • 2022.08 - 2025.05
    Vice President
    Johns Hopkins Quizbowl Club
    • Ran over 10+ tournaments (60+ students each)
    • Coordinated travel/accommodation for our national quizbowl team
    • Assistant Director for ACF Nationals, one of the largest college quizbowl tournaments