Daphne Ippolito

Assistant Professor, Language Technologies Institute

Daphne Ippolito is an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI). She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2022 with a dissertation entitled “Understanding the Limitations of using Large Language Models for Text Generation.”

Dr. Ippolito’s research continues to focus on the tradeoffs and limitations of generating text with large language models, with a focus on privacy and security issues arising in language generation systems. She also studies how training data affects what models can be trained and how to build better systems for realistic evaluation. 

At CMU, Dr. Ippolito teaches graduate courses on large language models and helped organize activities for the CMU Foundation and Language Model (FLAME) Center. She holds affiliate positions in the Machine Learning Department and the CyLab Security & Privacy Institute. Daphne is also a senior research scientist at Google DeepMind.

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