Alison Kim

Selected Projects

SHAP beeswarm plot showing feature contributions across transactions
Personal Project

AML Detection with XGBoost & SHAP

60xlift over base rate

A tool that flags suspicious financial transactions that look like money laundering, and explains why it flagged them.

PythonXGBoostSHAPpandas
Co-Authored Paper

Human Realignment: An Empirical Study of LLMs as Legal Decision-Aids in Moral Dilemmas

With Christoph Engel and Yoan Hermstrüwer

Co-authored research asking whether AI chatbots make the same moral choices humans do in classic ethical dilemmas (like the trolley problem), and whether they can be nudged toward more human-like judgment.

PythonLLM APIspandasRegression Analysis
A cheerful cartoon parrot, captioned with the decoding objective's regression formula: score equals w dot f plus b

Masterful artwork by me using Mac Preview

Master's Thesis

Learning a Decoding Objective from Human-Generated Text

7xcloser to human writing style than the best baseline

My Master's thesis: teaching a model to write more human-like text by learning what makes a good word choice, instead of hand-tuning the rules.

PythonPyTorchTransformersMAUVE