Josephine Passananti

I'm passionate about promoting diversity in STEM. My involvement includes teaching roles at DigiPen Institute of Technology and Polygence, as well as volunteer mentorship for Society of Women Engineers, CompileHer, and the Chicago South Side Free Music Program. My aim is to continue this work to contribute to a more inclusive research community. I aim to inspire interest and creativity in younger generations and would love to discuss additional initiatives to do so.

Please reach out to me with any questions you might have :)

Teaching Experience

CMSC 25800: Adversarial Machine Learning - Teaching Assistant @ University of Chicago Spring 2025

COMS W4705: Natural Language Processing - Teaching Assistant @ Columbia University Fall 2023

Ceramics Instructor @ Chicago Ceramic Center Feb 2024 - Present

DigiPen ProjectFun Instructor Summer 2018

Volunteer

SSFMP Flute Instructor

SWE Graduate Student Mentor

CompileHer Mentor - DreamHer Hacks

Students

Benjamin Lowry Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago '27 2025 - Present

Project: Preventing Misuse of Undress AI

Grace Stephens Undergraduate Student, University of Chicago '26 2025

Project: Defending Against Non-Consensual Deepfakes

Daria Fry High School Student, Bronx School of Science '26 2025 - Present

Project: Post-Generative AI Knowledge-Based Authentication System

Ryan Li High School Student → Stanford University '29 2024 - 2025

Project: Improving LLMs for Medical Question Answering

MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (Lightning Talk)
NLP for Positive Impact workshop at EMNLP
2nd Place - Alameda County Science & Engineering Fair

Henry Huang High School Student, Point Grey Secondary '25 2024

Project: The Impact of Gender in Emotion Detecting AI