Presentations and Public Speaking

LGBT Tech PATHS Forward Interview
NYC PIT Pop-Up Day – Raj Korpan & The TIER Lab Live Demo
Hunter College Faculty Spotlight

Measuring Black women’s trust in AI TechTank

Some historically marginalized groups, including Black women, have a complex relationship with the scientific community and institutions, yet their concerns and experiences with emerging technologies like AI are often left out of discussions around trust and design. In this episode, Nicol Turner Lee is joined by Raj Korpan and Zarah Guillemet to discuss their new research centering Black women’s trust in AI and the importance of this perspective in creating equitable technologies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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NYC School of Data Session on Building a NYC Public Interest Tech Lab
Queer Changemakers Podcast on Inclusive and Ethical AI
ComPITencies: A Framework for Public Interest Technology Learning Competencies
VoteLGBT Presentation on AI’s Impact on LGBT+ Communities: Challenges and Opportunities
Hunter ACERT session on Bias and Ethics in AI
AI’s Transformative Potential: Bridging Technology and Ethics on the Foreign Press Podcast

Creating Queer Inclusive Research and Experiences in AI TechTank

This week on the TechTank Podcast, co-host Nicol Turner Lee welcomes two distinguished guests: Arjun Subramonian, a Computer Science PhD candidate at the University of California, and Raj Korpan, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Hunter College, City University of New York. Together, they discuss their groundbreaking paper, "Queer in AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI." This insightful episode dives into the significant risks AI poses to queer communities and explores innovative, community-driven solutions. Don’t miss this compelling conversation on the intersection of technology and social justice. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Creating queer inclusive research and experiences in AI on the TechTank Podcast

Future of AI: Embrace or Fear? on One to One with Sheryl McCarthy
Empire AI Roundtable with Governor Kathy Hochul on April 30, 2024
Commencement Speaker for the CUNY Graduate Center Classes of ’20, ’21, and ’22
First International Workshop on Search and Planning with Complex Objectives at IJCAI 2023
CUNY Graduate Center 2021 Dissertation Showcase
31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021)
Second International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics at ACL 2021
Workshop on Integrated Execution (IntEx) / Goal Reasoning (GR) at ICAPS 2020

Profiles and Media Articles

„Queering AI“ – lässt sich künstliche Intelligenz queerer machen? – March 22, 2026

Hunter Computer Scientist and Team Test Queer-Friendly Robot – December 12, 2025

‘Still Going to Do This Work’: Professor Pushes Ahead on LGBTQ+ Robotics Study – July 22, 2025

Un viaje al interior de AllyAI y la búsqueda de una inteligencia artificial realmente inclusiva – July 11, 2025

Gutting the NSF undermines America’s AI strategy before it starts – July 31, 2025

Revolutionary and Responsible AI Robotics at the TIER Lab – January 2025

Computer Science Alumnus Comes Full Circle as a Cuny Faculty Member – March 7, 2024

From Financial Services to a Tenure-track Faculty Role: Raj Korpan, Class of 2021, on Pivoting Into a Ph.D. and Academia – May 28, 2021