I am an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department in Stony Brook University (SUNY), an Affiliate of the Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS), and a Visiting Professor at Salesforce AI Research. My work has been covered by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Telegraph, Bloomberg News and MIT Technology Review

My research interests are broadly in AI, Law and Public Policy and my goal is to design, build and audit responsible AI systems that are aligned with the requirements humans have from technology. I often rely on knowledge, methods, and perspectives from multiple disciplines to address complex problems or questions that cannot be fully understood or solved within the boundaries of Computer Science. I am specifically very interested in Generative AI, Creativity, Copyright and its impact on Labor Markets. Some representative works

• What characterizes AI slop in text 🏆Best Paper Honorable Mention at CHI 2025
• AI Safety and Future of Work 🏆 Outstanding Position Paper Award at ICML 2025
• Market Dilution and Generative AI Covered by the New Yorker; Top SSRN paper on AI & Law Q4-2025
• Memorization, Regurgitation and Fair Use Covered by the The Telegraph UK; Top SSRN paper on AI & Law Q1-2026

PhD students

• Xinyue Liu (Last Stop CMU MS)

Media

• Our paper on Memorization of Copyrighted Book was covered by The Telegraph AI accused of 'unjust exploitation' as bots reprint entire books
• Mention in The Atlantic for opinion on AI detection and watermarking How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times
• New work on BookSlop in Amazon covered in the New York Times A.I. Is Writing Fiction. Publishers Are Unprepared.
• Our paper was discussed in Literary Hub's Fiction/NonFiction Podcast
• Weekend Essay by Pulitzer Nominated Novelist Vauhini Vara in New Yorker covering my paper on AI and Copyright
• Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age Interview with Pultizer Fiction Finalist Vauhini Vara in Chapter 13 : Thank You for Your Important Work
• TechCrunch OpenAI’s ‘creative writing’ AI evokes that annoying kid from high school fiction club
• MIT Technology Review An AI script editor could help decide what films get made in Hollywood
• Bloomberg AI Has a Way to Go to Become A Connections Puzzle Champ
• MIT Technology Review AI can make you more creative—but it has limits
• MIT Technology Review Why artists are becoming less scared of AI?
• MIT Technology Review What happened when 20 comedians got AI to write their routines?
• Washington Post Can you tell which of these break-up texts are AI-generated?
• The Hollywood Reporter Why AI Isn’t Funny — At Least Not Yet
• The New York Times R&D Generating Open-Ended Questions from News Articles

Recent News

• New preprint on Regurgitation of Copyrighted Books due to Misalignment
• New CHI 2026 Paper on whether Good Writing Can Truly Be Generative ?
• New ICLR paper on problems with overindexing on Novelty w.r.t Pretraining in AI creativity evaluation
• New preprint on AI, Market Dilution Risks and Fair Use
• Grateful to receive ICML Outstanding Position Paper Award for our paper on AI Safety and Future of Work (Top 1%)
• New paper on Learning better rewards for improving AI writing accpted to COLM 2025
• Grateful to receive Best Paper Honorable mention at CHI 2025
• CHI 2025 paper accepted on quantifying and mitigating idiosyncracies in AI writing
• Recognized as an outstanding AC at EMNLP 2024
• Paper on LLM and abstract reasoning accepted to EMNLP
• First author paper on Creativity Evaluation accepted to CHI 2024, Honolulu
• First author paper on Creativity Support with LLM accepted to Creativity and Cognition 2024, Chicago