Hello, my name is Aisvarya!
I am a computational journalist at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, where I study the uses and impact of AI tools in journalism.
Brown Institute’s Magic Grant supports my work on PollFinder.ai.

RECENTLY PUBLISHED WORK
Why AI Models Are Bad at Verifying Photos
TOW CENTER FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISM | experiment-design, analysis, writing, graphics
AI Search has a Citation Problem  
TOW CENTER FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISM | experiment-design, analysis, writing, graphics
How ChatGPT Search (Mis)represents Publisher Content 
TOW CENTER FOR DIGITAL JOURNALISM | experiment-design, analysis, writing, graphics
‘Automating the Boring Stuff’ with Pollfinder.ai
Tow Center for Digital Journalism | writing
On Musk, Grok, and the Press 
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW | data analysis
Presentations
OA, Attribution, and Addressing Faculty AI Concerns
May 2025 | SPARC
Can LLMs Extract Transparency Metrics from Text Descriptions of Polling Methods
MAY 2025 | American Association for Public Opinion Research 
Using Large Language Models to Help Newsrooms Aggregate Polls For the 2024 Election
Oct 2024 | Computation + Journalism Symposium
(Panel) Editing AI-powered Journalism | What We Have Learned So Far
SEPT 2024 | AI and the newsroom: Navigating what’s next  (Organized by Tow Center for Digital Journalism)
PAST WORK
The F-Word
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW