👋🏼 Hello, I'm Adam Visokay
**currently seeking an internship for Summer, 2025**
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).
My research 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
03 Dec 2024 - 🧑⚖️ Report on Legal Financial Obligations in Washington’s Courts is published. [
link]:
04 Dec 2024 - 🇩🇪 Presenting my research at the 2024 Annual Academy at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany. [
Slides]:
19 Nov 2024 - 📜 My new project
BMI predicts adiposity, but not well enough to learn about obesity is accepted as an oral presentation for
PAA 2025 in Washington D.C. April 10-13 2025.:
25 Sep 2024 - 🎒 Started 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 (
IMPRS-PHDS).:
31 Jul 2024 - 🗳️ 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 post-prediction inference for cause of death estimation is accepted to COLM 2024! [
Paper]:
10 Jul 2024 - 🎙 Invited talk at the US Census Bureau for 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 - 🧑🏫 Poster presentation at the 25th Anniversary Conference for
UW CSSS. [
Poster]:
01 May 2024 - 🧑🏫 Our poster on sociodemographic bias in Google Street View is presented at the UC Berkeley Data Science Discovery Symposium. [
Poster]:
01 Mar 2024 - 🧑⚖️ Started my new position doing applied NLP work for Washington State Courts Washington Courts (
WSCCR).:
07 Oct 2023 - 📜 My paper about using GPT-4 to annotate Federal Reserve documents is officially accepted to EMNLP Findings 2023! [
Paper]:
27 Sep 2023 - 🎒 Started Year 1 of my Ph.D. at UW!: