PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Aditya Vashistha

Aditya Vashistha is a Cornell information science professor who studies globally equitable AI for historically marginalized communities. His early work examined educational content created and shared by low-income visually impaired people and community voice systems for rural India, and he completed a computer science and engineering PhD at the University of Washington in 2019. He coauthored a 2021 study of AI-enabled rural health apps and held a Cornell fellowship focused on misinformation and digital inequality. His 2024 study of gender bias in Hindi language technology won FAccT's Best Paper Award, and his 2025 work found that AI writing suggestions pushed Indian participants' writing toward Western styles. In 2026, he received an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award and contributed to Shiksha Copilot; he leads Cornell's Global AI Initiative.

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Timeline

  1. 2014–2015

    Education and voice systems

    In 2014, he coauthors a paper on educational content creation and sharing by low-income visually impaired people in India. In 2015, Sangeet Swara, a voice forum that lets low-income people in rural areas curate and share content, wins a CHI Best Paper Award.

  2. 2017–2019

    A PhD and Cornell appointment

    In 2017, he receives the UW College of Engineering Graduate Student Research Award for work on social media technologies in the developing world. In 2019, he completes a Ph.D. in computer science and engineering at the UW Allen School, working with Richard Anderson in the ICTD Lab, and joins Cornell's Department of Information Science after a visiting researcher stint at Microsoft.

  3. 2021–2022

    AI for rural health

    In 2021, he coauthors a CHI study of rural Indian community health workers' perceptions of AI-enabled mobile health applications. As a Global Public Voices fellow at Cornell's Einaudi Center in 2021–2022, he works to draw attention to online misinformation, digital inequality, and social injustice.

  4. 2024

    Gender bias in Hindi technology

    At FAccT 2024, he coauthors Akal Badi ya Bias, an exploratory study of gender bias in Hindi language technology. The paper wins the Best Paper Award.

  5. 2025

    AI writing across cultures

    In 2025, he coauthors a controlled study of 118 Indian and American participants. It finds that AI writing suggestions make their writing more similar, mainly at the expense of Indian writing styles, and can diminish cultural nuance.

  6. July 2026

    An NSF early-career award

    In July 2026, the National Science Foundation awards him a Faculty Early Career Development Award to investigate how people share information and govern private-group social media. The project develops AI tools to help group members set rules and resolve disagreements.

  7. October 2026

    Shiksha Copilot for teachers

    In October 2026, Cornell and Microsoft Research India researchers evaluate Shiksha Copilot with more than 1,000 teachers in Karnataka, and he contributes to the project. The AI system converts textbooks into grade-appropriate lesson plans in English and Kannada; its paper receives an Honorable Mention at the ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing conference.

  8. As of October 2026

    Cornell's Global AI Initiative

    As of October 2026, he is an assistant professor of information science at Cornell Bowers and leads the Cornell Global AI Initiative, a university-wide effort to bring global perspectives into AI design, evaluation, and governance. His research aims to design, build, and evaluate globally equitable AI technologies that improve socioeconomic outcomes for historically marginalized communities.

Career

  1. Since 2019Cornell UniversityAssistant Professor of Information Science
  2. MicrosoftVisiting Researcher

Education

  1. 2019University of WashingtonPhD

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Aditya Vashistha. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. 11% of AI doctorate holders from 2010 to 2016 founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduationIncludes Cornell University. We estimate how often AI doctorate holders founded or led a company or lab by 10 years after graduation, how waiting times compare between founders and top jobs, and which universities trained the most.
  3. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Cornell University. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.
  4. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labsIncludes Cornell University. The median h-index is 48 at universities and 14 at frontier AI labs. We compare publishing careers, recent citations, dual appointments and job moves across 2,420 university researchers and 308 frontier-lab researchers.

Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. Publications - Aditya Vashistha adityavashistha.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Allen School's Aditya Vashistha wins Graduate Student Research Award news.cs.washington.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Back-to-school ritual takes on new significance for Allen School graduates turned faculty members news.cs.washington.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Aditya Vashistha | Department of Information Science | Cornell Bowers infosci.cornell.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Aditya Vashistha | Einaudi Center einaudi.cornell.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. ACM FAccT 2024 Accepted Papers facctconference.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. AI suggestions make writing more generic, Western eurekalert.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. Thirteen early-career professors win NSF development awards news.cornell.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.
  9. AI tool makes culturally appropriate lessons for teachers in India news.cornell.edu. Checked 20 October 2026.