René Kizilcec

@whynotyet

Associate Professor of Information Science @Cornell; Education, Technology, AI/ML, Fairness/Equity. Opinions are my own.

Ithaca, NY rene.kizilcec.com Joined April 2009

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René Kizilcec @whynotyet Sep 10, 2025

📣Festival of Learning 2026 🎆
June 29 – July 3, 2026 • Seoul, South Korea

Co-location of AIED @AIEDconf, EDM @EDMConf2025, and L@S @LearningAtScale w/ contributions from SoLAR @SoLAResearch and ISLS @islsnews

Mark your calendars, stay tuned!
Website: festival-of-learning-2026.info

René Kizilcec @whynotyet Mar 5, 2025

Excited to be at #lak2025 check out Kimberly Williamson’s paper today at 10:20 on Algo Appreciation among Educators! Happy to chat about the National Tutoring Observatory— we are hiring a postdoc and Asst Research Prof. nationaltutoringobservatory.org

René Kizilcec @whynotyet Oct 17, 2024

Excited for @LearningAtScale to be in Palermo next summer together with @AIEDconf and @EDMConf2025 and confirmed keynote by @chrispiech!

ACM Learning@Scale 2026 @LearningAtScale Oct 17, 2024

The 2025 ACM Learning at Scale Call for Papers is out!

Check out all Submission Guidelines and Important Dates: learningatscale.acm.org/las2025/index.…

Did we mention we are in sunny Palermo, Sicily in 2025, co-located with @AIEDconf & @EDMConf2025?

@SusanRSinger @OlgaOvi @xaoch @Iriskie_Xia

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René Kizilcec @whynotyet Sep 25, 2024

In addition to showing the cultural bias in GPT’s responses, we demonstrate a simple but effective control strategy to improve cultural alignment: cultural prompting, I.e. instructing the model to respond like someone from your region. It works best for the latest versions.

PNAS Nexus @PNASNexus Sep 23, 2024

Researchers concerned about cultural bias in large language models asked ChatGPT questions about values used in international surveys. All versions of the model answered like people in English-speaking and Protestant European countries. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/4Oy350Trj4S

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René Kizilcec @whynotyet Sep 19, 2024

We are hiring at @CornellInfoSci ! Open rank: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405 Cornell is a fantastic place to work, please consider applying and sharing this opportunity.