👋🏼 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.:
25 Sep 2024 - 🎒 Entering Year 2 of my Ph.D. at UW!:
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!:
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!: