Rishi D. Jha & Travis Lloyd
Cornell Tech
Digital Life Seminar
Abstract
The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies.
About
Rishi Jha is a PhD student in Computer Science at Cornell Tech, where he is advised by Professor Vitaly Shmatikov. His research interests lie in understanding how generative AI’s internal knowledge representations—such as embeddings and inter-agent communications—create privacy and security vulnerabilities. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S.B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics (Philosophy) from the University of Washington, Seattle. As a DLI Fellow, he hopes to explore ethical and legal perspectives on meaningful AI safety.
Travis Lloyd is a PhD student in Information Science advised by Mor Naaman and Karen Levy. His research uses both computational and qualitative methods to better understand how emerging technologies, particularly AI systems, reshape power dynamics in society. As a DLI fellow, he hopes to focus on exploring the relationship between AI and economic inequality.