Lucia Zheng

My research focuses on the intersection of AI and law. Broadly, I’m interested in leveraging AI to improve people’s experiences interfacing and engaging with the legal system and government services. I work on adapting and developing natural language processing and machine learning methods to address the unique challenges posed by the legal setting and complex decision-making processes with diverse human stakeholders, with an eye towards building accessible, trustworthy, and safe systems. This has included work on understanding and modeling legal reasoning, legal information retrieval, and studying how language model assistance can improve human decision making and how language models can learn from human feedback encoded in language.

Additionally, I’m interested in studying technical and regulatory levers for AI governance. I’m interested in policy questions surrounding incentives for transparency and open reporting on AI development, deployment, and evaluation, safeguards and mitigation strategies to address AI harms and potential for misuse, and mechanisms for regulatory compliance.