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Pratik Sachdeva

Research Scientist
University of California, Berkeley
pratik.sachdeva (at) berkeley.edu


Publications

AI Alignment

Normative evaluation of large language models with everyday moral dilemmas

P. S. Sachdeva, T. van Nuenen

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (2025)

ML for Hate Speech

Assessing Annotator Identity Sensitivity via Item Response Theory: A Case Study in a Hate Speech Corpus

P. S. Sachdeva, R. Barreto, C. von Vacano, C. J. Kennedy

ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (2022)

Targeted Identity Group Prediction in Hate Speech Corpora

P. S. Sachdeva, R. Barreto, C. von Vacano, C. J. Kennedy

6th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms, NAACL (2022)

The Measuring Hate Speech Corpus: Leveraging Rasch Measurement Theory for Data Perspectivism

P. S. Sachdeva, R. Barreto, G. Bacon, A. Sahn, C. von Vacano, C. J. Kennedy

1st Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP, LREC (2022)

ML in the Public Interest

Comparing Methods for Estimating Demographics in Racially Polarized Voting Analyses

A. Decter-Frain, P. S. Sachdeva, L. Collingwood, J. Burke, H. Murayama, M. Barreto, S. Henderson, S. A. Wood, J. Zingher

Sociological Methods & Research (2023)

Accurate and Scalable Matching of Translators to Displaced Persons for Overcoming Language Barriers

D. Agarwal, Y. Baba, P. S. Sachdeva, T. Tandon, T. Vetterli, A. Alghunaim

ML4D Workshop at Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS (2020)

Computational Humanities

Interrogating Racism in the Medical Literature Using Word Embeddings

L. Liao, S. Darwish, C. Figueroa, E. Manalo-Pedro, S. Pola, M. Jha, F. De Maio, C. von Vacano, C. Kennedy and P.S. Sachdeva

Submitted to Computational Humanities Research 2025

The stories about racism and health: the development of a framework for racism narratives in medical literature using a computational grounded theory approach

C. Figueroa, E. Manalo-Pedro, S. Pola, S. Darwish, P.S. Sachdeva, C. von Vacano, M. Jha, F. De Maio, C. Kennedy

International Journal for Equity in Health (2025)

Computational Neuroscience

Identifying and Mitigating Statistical Biases in Neural Models of Tuning and Functional Coupling

P. S. Sachdeva, J. Bak, J. A. Livezey, M. E. Dougherty, S. Bhattacharyya, K. E. Bouchard

Submitted to Journal of Machine Learning Research

The geometry of correlated variability leads to highly suboptimal discriminative sensory coding

J. A. Livezey, P. S. Sachdeva, M. E. Dougherty, M. T. Summers, K. E. Bouchard

Journal of Neurophysiology (2025)

Improved inference in coupling, encoding, and decoding models and its consequence for neuroscientific interpretation

P. S. Sachdeva, J. A. Livezey, M. E. Dougherty, B. M. Gu, J. D. Berke, K. E. Bouchard

Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2021)

Heterogeneous synaptic weighting improves neural coding in the presence of common noise

P. S. Sachdeva, J. A. Livezey, M. R. DeWeese

Neural Computation (2020)

Sparse, Interpretable, and Predictive Functional Connectomics with UoI-Lasso

P. S. Sachdeva, S. Bhattacharyya, K. E. Bouchard

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2019)

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Open-Source Software

PyUoI: The Union of Intersections Framework in Python

P. S. Sachdeva, J. A. Livezey, A. J. Tritt, K. E. Bouchard

Journal of Open Source Software (2019)

Physics

On the Stability of Strange Dwarf Hybrid Stars

M. G. Alford, S. P. Harris, P. S. Sachdeva

The Astrophysical Journal (2017)

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