Hi! I'm an incoming postdoc at Cornell University working with Dr. Qian Yang on designing novel AI products and their policies simultaneously. I'm interested in questions like: how do we involve users and communities in designing AI systems and policies? And how can we ensure these technologies give people control over their experiences?
I completed my PhD at the ANU. I also collaborate with Google Research to explore ways to make AI work better for various languages and dialects. My research is informed by my past work as a strategy consultant, lawyer, and policy officer in Australia, the UK, and Guatemala (2012-2020).
I'm always up for learning and collaborating - please reach out! edc88 [at] cornell [dot] edu
Jared Moore, Ned Cooper, Rasmus Overmark, Beba Cibralic, Nick Haber, Cameron R. Jones. 2025. Do Large Language Models Have a Planning Theory of Mind? Evidence from MINDGAMES: a Multi-Step Persuasion Task. Conference on Language Modeling (COLM '25). Just accepted.
Ned Cooper and Alexandra Zafiroglu. 2025. Constraining Participation: Affordances of Feedback Features in Interfaces to Large Language Models. ACM Journal on Responsible Computing.
Ben Hutchinson, Celeste RodrÃguez Louro, Glenys Collard, and Ned Cooper. 2025. Designing Speech Technologies for Australian Aboriginal English: Opportunities, Risks and Participation. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '25).