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I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs 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, fairness and robustness. 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

Jun
2022
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Presented at Simons Institute. See video of presentation.

Mar
2020
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Recipient of the NSF 2020 CAREER Award.

May
2019
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Selected as a VMware Research Fellow for “Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications” at the Simons Institute (see my recent talk on "Societal Concerns in Targeted Advertising").

May
2019
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Received a Security and Privacy Research Award for research on differential privacy from Google, a Mozilla Research grant for studying ad preference controls, an NSF SaTC Medium for "Understanding the Privacy and Societal Risks of Advanced Advertising Targeting and Tracking", and an NSF SaTC Frontiers for "Protecting Personal Data Flow on the Internet".

Research

Privacy, algorithmic fairness, accountability and transparency are currently at the center of key debates across academia, industry and policy. My research sits at the intersection of these topics and aims to leverage algorithmic thinking in order to provide new solution spaces that allow for a better balance between individual interests, societal goals, and technical innovation.

I develop algorithmic and systems advances that can enable data-driven innovations while preserving individual privacy, defined in the paradigm of differential privacy.

I work to understand how opaque AI systems (including generative AI) may be affecting individuals and society, and to develop algorithmic techniques for mitigating their negative consequences.

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Recent Publications

An External Fairness Evaluation of LinkedIn Talent Search
Tina Behzad, Siddartha Devic, Vatsal Sharan, Aleksandra Korolova, David Kempe

Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026).

Selected for oral presentation at the Special Track on AI for Social Impact.

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ReliabilityRAG: Effective and Provably Robust Defense for RAG-based Web-Search
Zeyu Shen, Basileal Imana, Tong Wu, Chong Xiang, Prateek Mittal, Aleksandra Korolova

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025).

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External Evaluation of Discrimination Mitigation Efforts in Meta’s Ad Delivery
Basileal Imana, Zeyu Shen, John Heidemann, and Aleksandra Korolova

Proceedings of ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT 2025).

In Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC 2025).

Best Paper Award (FAccT 2025).

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fairness