hi, i'm parth! 👋🏽

Currently:

Previously: Computing Education Research @ CoCoLab, AI Literacy Research @ DISTAL Lab, Tech & Ethics Policy Fellow @ the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Instructor for CS 41 @ Stanford

Reach me at: psarin@stanford.edu

🧑🏽‍🏫 about me

I study questions about power and technology from perspectives informed by gender theory, surveillance studies, and decolonial scholarship and activism. My recent work has focused on intimacy—including romantic relationships, friendships, therapy, and other forms of care—between humans and language technologies.

🎨 projects

July 2025
Started the AI Intimacy Project (co-PI) with a grant from Stanford Public Humanities
June 2025
Published "Suspending Disbelief: The Algorithmic Theater of Student Computer Tracking Software" with Laura Hill-Bonnet
May 2025
Presented "Citation Parsing and Analysis with Language Models" at the Workshop on Open Citations at the University of Bologna
December 2024
Presented "The Gender Threat: Right-Wing Imaginaries on Brazilian Twitter" with Gabriel Poesia at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
March 2024
Published "Co-designing AI Education Curriculum with Cross-Disciplinary High School Teachers" with many CRAFT collaborators
March 2021
Helped start the CRAFT project and worked with teachers to build resources to teach about AI
2019 – 2023
Taught CS 41 with two lovely co-instructors—Tara Jones (2022–2023) and Michael Cooper (2019–2021)—and built an autograder for the course that can run student code and try to explain what went wrong in plain English
2019
gibberish displays idioms in languages that reference another language as "gibberish" (e.g. "That's Greek to me")