Hi, I’m Mariia.
I am a Computer Science MSc student at ETH Zurich, researching how to enhance personalization, social adaptability, fairness, and pedagogical effectiveness of LLMs in Education. I currently collaborate with the Language, Reasoning and Education group at ETH, advised by Professor Mrinmaya Sachan, Donya Rooein, and Sankalan Pal Chowdhury. Previously, I worked on a pedagogical chatbot to provide support to students in a graduate-level course at the Group for Sustainability and Technology, supervised by Malte Toetzke. I also collaborated with Professor Nisheeth K. Vishnoi at Yale University.
I believe that as LLMs become increasingly integrated into everyday life, it is important to better understand their social awareness and moral reasoning. Therefore, my research interests are focused on social intelligence, fairness, moral judgment, and behavioral patterns of LLMs in high-stakes social contexts. I am interested both in analyzing and improving these capabilities of existing models, as well as in developing LLM-based frameworks that support humans in such domains. I am also interested in these topics in the context of AI Safety and Alignment Research.
The other half of my personality is passionate about building AI-powered products that change the way people engage with the world and help them accomplish more and with greater efficiency and impact. My dream is to find a significant problem that I deeply care about and build a startup with like-minded people to solve it.