With the rise of language models, clean, inclusive and responsible datasets are essential to creating products without racial, ethnic and gender bias. Phonologie is an NGO that partners with universities, schools, and organizations to collect clean datasets to challenge exisiting bias in AI by creating newly trained models with inclusive representation for more equitable, fair and open access.
Team
Shawna Doherty, Founder, created several multi-language + literacy programs. One was in a longitudinal study by NYU + found to have 87% academic gains. BA English. Grad in Multicultural + Urban Ed. Post-grad in Data, Econ + Policy, MIT.
Tamer Karatekin, Product Manager, Senior Software Architect at Oracle. Created many ML NLP products. Former National Chess Champion of Turkey. Founder of Deep Sea Chess. BS in Computer Science. Grad in Data, Econ + Policy, MIT.
Dr. Bryce Johnson, Director of Linguistics, PhD Duke University. Fluent in 5 languages. Develops curriculum for langague testing. Oversees research data collection and internships at Neumann University.
Research Partners
Michael Newman, Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Communication Disorders (LCD) at Queens College of the City University of New York. Author of New York Englishes. Research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BMicDDIAAAAJ&hl=en
Bill Haddican, Professor of Linguistics, Queens College. Recent work on variation in English as a collaborator with the Corpus of New York City English (CoNYCE) research Papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2TfQssoAAAAJ&hl=en
Advisory Board
Elizabeth Tam, Business Advisor, Senior Product Manager at American Express, former AMEX Travel Chief of Staff & journalist. Expertise in Product Management, Strategy, International Business & Finance.
Ram Periathiruvadi, Senior Technology Advisor. Spent 20+ years in Senior Software Engineer Management at Google, Apple overseeing large projects in mobile, robotics + autonomous vehicles.
Partnerships
80 Countries,156 Chapters
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About Us
Mission
With the rise of language models, clean, inclusive and responsible datasets are essential to creating products without racial, ethnic and gender bias. Phonologie is an NGO that partners with universities, schools, and organizations to collect clean datasets to challenge exisiting bias in AI by adding newly trained models with inclusive representation.
Team
Shawna Doherty, Founder, created several multi-language + literacy programs. One was in a longitudinal study by NYU and found to have 87% academic gains over the control. Post-grad in Data, Econ + Policy.
Tamer Karatekin, Product Manager, Senior Software Architect at Oracle. Created many ML NLP products. Former National Chess Champion of Turkey. Full scholarship + heads MIT student business council.
Dr. Bryce Johnson, Director of Linguistics, PhD Duke University. Fluent in 5 languages. Oversees research partnership, in person data collection and internships at Neumann University.
Advisory Board
Elizabeth Tam, Business Advisor, Senior Product Manager of Business Development at American Express, Kabbage Division. Former Head of AMEX Travel.
Ram Periathiruvadi, Senior Technology Advisor. Spent 20+ years in Senior Software Engineer Management at Google, Apple + Meta creating cool products.
Research Partnerships
80 Countries, 156 Chapters
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