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I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs, and the Jonathan Dickinson Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University. I'm also excited to be part of Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy.

I study societal impacts of algorithms, machine learning and AI, and develop and deploy algorithms and technologies that enable data-driven innovations while preserving privacy, equity, reliability and accountability. I also design and perform AI audits.

Contact

korolova@princeton.edu

309 Sherrerd Hall, Princeton, NJ 08540

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Reach out by email if you would like to collaborate.

Prospective Ph.D. students should apply to the Ph.D. program in the Department of Computer Science or in the School of Public and International Affairs and indicate an interest in working with me in your statement.

Prospective postdocs should apply to CITP's Fellows Program and reach out to me directly.

News and updates

Oct
2026
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SciConBench, studying how well AI can synthesize scientific conclusions in health, led by Hayoung accepted at NeurIPS 2026. Check out our live dashboard.

Sep
2026
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Congratulations to Yaelle and Hayoung for their selection as Fall 2026 Graduate Fellows of Social Data Science.

Sep
2026
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Excited to welcome Maya and Katie to my research group and to co-advise them with Jonathan Mayer.

Aug
2026
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Congratulations to Max on his Def Con presentation on how the algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot can be exploited with AI tools.

Aug
2026
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Congratulations to Grace, whose paper based on her senior thesis, was accepted to EAAMO 2026 for an oral presentation.

Jul
2026
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Honored to be elected as a member of the Research committee of the IASEAI Council for a 2 year term. Excited about CITP's strong representation on the Council.

Jul
2026
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Congratulations to Bohdan on a successful presentation at ICML 2026.

Research

The most consequential algorithmic and AI systems of our time are also the least inspectable. My research builds the scientific and policy foundations for transforming and radically improving the relationship between society and its algorithmic and AI infrastructure. I do so in four connected thrusts: algorithmic auditing, measuring deployed interventions, privacy-preserving systems, and evaluating and safeguarding generative AI.

Recent Publications

Can AI Agents Synthesize Scientific Conclusions?
Hayoung Jung, Pedro Viana Diniz, José Reinaldo Corrêa Roveda, Abner Fernandes da Silva, Haeun Jung, Enoch Tsai, Aleksandra Korolova, Manoel Horta Ribeiro

To appear in 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026), Evaluations and Datasets Track.

Live dashboard.

Press: 
Greedy Coordinate Diffusion: Effective and Semantically Coherent Adversarial Attacks via Diffusion Guidance
Bohdan Turbal, Blossom Metevier, Max Springer, Aleksandra Korolova

43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026).

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The Geometry of Alignment Collapse: When Fine-Tuning Breaks Safety
Max Springer, Chung Peng Lee, Blossom Metevier, Jane Castleman, Bohdan Turbal, Hayoung Jung, Zeyu Shen, Aleksandra Korolova

To appear in 40th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2026).

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