Hale Sirin

About

Hale Sirin is a program scientist at the Schmidt Sciences AI and Advanced Computing Institute and an assistant research professor at Johns Hopkins University, affiliated with the Center for Digital Humanities and the Center for Language and Speech Processing. Her research investigates how AI can understand language, culture, and narrative across the world's linguistic diversity. At Schmidt Sciences, she leads the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI), which supports AI research that accelerates discovery in the humanities, and the AI Agents program, which studies how communication and cooperation emerge among AI agents. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow in computational linguistics at Johns Hopkins, focusing on AI for cultural heritage. She holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins and an MA from the University of Chicago.