Aidan Kierans
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut
📧 aidan.kierans [at] uconn.edu
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Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and Engineering
University of Connecticut
📧 aidan.kierans [at] uconn.edu
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I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut, focusing on aligning artificial intelligence with humanity's many goals and moral views. My research interests span AI safety, ethics, and governance. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Shiri Dori-Hacohen in the Reducing Information Ecosystem Threats (RIET) Lab, and I am the founder and president of the student group Beneficial and Ethical AI at UConn (BEACON).
Quantifying Misalignment Between Agents: Towards a Sociotechnical Understanding of Alignment
Kierans, A., Ghosh, A., Hazan, H., & Dori-Hacohen, S.
Forthcoming in AAAI-AIA-25 (2025)
[Preprint]
Benchmarked Ethics: A Roadmap to AI Alignment, Moral Knowledge, and Control
Kierans, A.
Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
[Paper]
Bootstrap percolation via automated conjecturing
Neal Bushaw, Blake Conka, Vinay Gupta, Aidan Kierans, Hudson Lafayette, Craig Larson, Kevin McCall, Andriy Mulyar, Christine Sullivan, Scott Taylor, Evan Wainright, Evan Wilson, Guanyu Wu, Sarah Loeb
ARS MATHEMATICA CONTEMPORANEA 23, no. 3 (2023): P3-06.
[Paper]
• The Safe and Trustworthy AI Workshop (ICLP 2023) Best Poster Award
• NeurIPS ML Safety Workshop AI Risk Analysis Award (2022)
• UConn Computer Science and Engineering Predoctoral Fellowship (2023)
• UConn School of Engineering Next Gen Scholar GE Graduate Fellowship for Innovation (2021-2022)
• Member of the Future of Life Institute's AI Safety Community Researchers
Graduate Research Assistant - UConn Reducing Information Ecosystem Threats (RIET) Lab
Pathways to AI Policy Selected Participant - Wilson Center's Science and Technology Innovation Program
Graduate Entrepreneurship Fellowship - UConn Engineering Entrepreneurship Hub
Founder & President - Beneficial and Ethical AI at UConn (BEACON)
Feel free to reach out to me at aidan.kierans [at] uconn.edu or connect with me on LinkedIn.