👋🏼 Hello, I'm Adam Visokay

I am a PhD student studying at the University of Washington, advised by Professor Tyler McCormick. I am also an affiliate student at the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science (IMPRS-PHDS). I am currently seeking an Internship for Summer, 2025. My research explores explores how to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to study social phenomena, typically motivated by questions in public health, economics, and sociology. I am particularly interested in improving the interpretability and transparency of language models and how to perform valid statistical inference using predictions. My most recent work is featured in EMNLP and COLM.

🎓 Education

2023-present - PhD, University of Washington, Sociology
2024 - MA, University of Washington, Sociology
2017 - MA, Syracuse University, Economics
2016 - BA, University of Virginia, Economics & History

🔬 Experience

2023-present - Graduate Research Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle
2022-2023 Researcher, University of Washington CSSS, Seattle
2021-Summer - Research Assistant, Sciences Po, Paris (Remote COVID)

📰 News

19 Nov 2024 - 📜 My new project BMI predicts adiposity, but not well enough to learn about obesity has been accepted for the PAA 2025 Annual Meeting program as an Oral Session in Washington D.C. April 10-13 2025.:
12 Nov 2024 - 🎙 Gave a talk on Inference on Predicted Data at the UW Data Science Seminar in Seattle, WA [Slides]:
06 Nov 2024 - 🎙 Gave a talk on Inference on Predicted Data at the UW Computational Demography Working Group in Seattle, WA [Slides]:
05 Nov 2024 - 🎙 Gave a talk on Inference on Predicted Data at the Fred Hutchinson Deep Learning Affinity Group in Seattle, WA [Slides]:
07 Oct 2024 - 🧑‍🏫 Presented a poster at the first-ever Conference on Language Models (COLM🦙) in Philadelphia, PA [Poster]:
25 Sep 2024 - 🎒 Entering Year 2 of my Ph.D. at UW!:
09 Sep 2024 - 📊 Co-instructed this year's Summer Math Camp for incoming social science Ph.D. students for the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at UW [Course materials]:
15 Aug 2024 - 🎒 Admitted as an affiliated student at the International Max Planck Research School for Population, Health and Data Science for a 3 year period starting in November 2024:
31 Jul 2024 - 🗳️ I was elected to a one year term as President of my department's Graduate Student Association for the 2024-2025 academic year:
10 Jul 2024 - 📜 My paper about using language models for verbal autopsy cause of death inference was officially accepted to COLM [Paper]:
10 Jul 2024 - 🎙 Gave a talk on Inference on Predicted Data at the US Census Bureau to the xD team [Slides]:
08 Jun 2024 - 🎓 I received my M.A. in Sociology [Slide]:
20 May 2024 - 🏆 Ph.D. Milestone 1/n - I successfully defended my M.A. Thesis!:
16 May 2024 - 🧑‍🏫 Presented a poster at the 25th Anniversary Conference for the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences at UW [Poster]:
01 Mar 2024 - 🧑‍⚖️ I started my new position as an NLP Researcher at Washington State Courts Washington Courts:
07 Oct 2023 - 📜 My paper about using GPT-4 to annotate Federal Reserve documents was officially accepted to EMNLP Findings! [Paper]:
27 Sep 2023 - 🎒 Entering Year 1 of my Ph.D. at UW!: