Overview
Unso (Eun Seo) Jo is a computational historian interested in topics at the intersection of AI and the humanities with a focus on international and linguistic inclusivity. Her current book project on the history of AI is a global history of how people have imagined man-made intelligence since the Enlightenment and the ways in which these ideas still have an impact today. She is also working on training and evaluating Asian language models as well as building datasets they could be trained on. Before Cornell Dr. Jo worked as a research engineer at Hugging Face where she has worked on projects such as multilingual search and few-shot learning. She has interdisciplinary academic training in History (PhD) and Computer Science (MS) and her passion is in bridging engineering and the humanities!