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Education

• B.A. in Literatures in English, Cornell University, 2020-2024
• Game Development, Danish Institute for Study Abroad, Jan 2023 - May 2023

Work experience

• Computational Linguistics Research Fellow, Aug 2024-Present
  • University of Maryland
  • Duties include: Collaborate with UMD faculty to perform computational linguistics research analyzing linguistic decision in LLMs and leveraging ML techniques for NLU and language education media
• Communications Assistant, Sep 2023-May 2024
  • Cornell University
  • Duties include: Developing media content, stories and strategies on DEI initiatives within Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
• NLP Researcher, Jun 2023-Aug 2023
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Duties include: Developing PyTorch software library that utilizes weighted finite state algorithms and maintains comparable functionality to LAST (Google)
• Computer Vision Researcher, Jun 2022-Aug 2022
  • Brown University Visual Computing Lab
  • Duties included: Design language-base image translation model using pix2pix architecture

Skills

• Top 3 Programming languages: Python, Java, C#
• Project Management
• Machine Learning Model Development:
  • PyTorch
  • NumPy
  • JAX
• Technical Writing
• Foreign Languages: Mandarin Chinese (Advanced Working Proficiency), Danish (Beginner Proficiency)

Publications

Neutrality Bites: Gender Representation in AI-Generated Animal Stories

Imani Finkley, Yuanxi Li, and Melanie Walsh. 2026. Neutrality Bites: Gender Representation in AI-Generated Animal Stories. In The 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’26), June 25–28, 2026, Montreal, QC, Canada. ACM, NewYork, NY, USA, 18 pages.

A failure to communicate: Declining judicial trust and a new approach to institutional communication

Joanna Mendy, Jayden Cowley, Imani Finkley, Mads Eggerding, Ali Durran, Danielle Lee Tomson, Michael Grass, Cullen White, Emma Spiro, and Kate Starbird. 2026. A failure to communicate: Declining judicial trust and a new approach to institutional communication.

By AI: Authorship, Literature, & Large Language Models

Imani Finkley. 2024. By AI: Authorship, Literature, and Large Language Models. Cornell University.

Talks

By AI: Authorship, Literature, and Large Language Models

May 03, 2024

Presentation at Cornell University, A.D. White House, Ithaca, NY

Literature in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

February 16, 2024

Presentation at Cornell University, Department of Comparative Literature, Ithaca, NY

Finite State Methods with Modern Neural Architectures for Speech Applications and Beyond

August 04, 2023

Presentation at 2023 Jelinek Summer Workshop for Speech and Language Technology (JSALT), Le Mans, France

RealSketch: Language-Based Material Manipulation for Transforming Sketches into Images

August 05, 2022

Poster at Brown University Summer Research Symposium, Providence, RI

Teaching

Extension Lecturer

Workshop Facilitator

Advanced NLP for Humanities Research TA

Discrete Mathematics Course Consultant

Service and leadership

• Underrepresented Minorities in Computing, Cornell University, 2022 President
• Cornell Data Science, Cornell University, Fall 2023 Project Manager