Zandi Eberstadt is pursuing a DPhil in Computer Science at the University of Oxford, supervised by Dr Max Van Kleek and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, where she is a doctoral scholar at the Institute for Ethics in AI. She is also a PhD student researcher at Google on the Paradigms of Intelligence team.
Her PhD research focuses on communication between substrates, specifically looking at syntactic convergence of LLMs towards humans, information-theoretic and mechanistic properties of this convergence, as well as how this convergence affects user wellbeing.
Previously, she graduated with highest honours from Johns Hopkins University where she served on the executive board of the Artificial Intelligence Society and worked with the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence on NLP and spatial language tasks.
She has also worked in forensic authorship attribution and AI policy.