Jessica Tang

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▹ I'm a first year PhD student at Brown University, advised by Prof. Serena Booth.

▹ My research focuses on advancing interpretability and verification methods that support the alignment of intelligent systems with human values.

▹ I earned my Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto, advised by Prof. Sheila McIlraith and Silviu Pitis.

▹ I founded The Lumens (previously "illuminAI"), publishing articles and interviews at the intersection of AI ethics, safety, and society.

▹ Outside of research, I perform and write music!

Tokengeist: Multi-Turn Attribution Tracing in Agentic Conversations.
Jessica Tang, Shraddha Barke, Sharad Agarwal. 2026.
Optimizing a Margin of Safety via Prompt Repair for Large Language Models.
Jessica Tang, Silviu Pitis, Sheila McIlraith. Machine Ethics workshop at AAAI 2026.
Rehabilitation Exercise Quality Assessment and Feedback Generation Using Large Language Models with Prompt Engineering. [Code]
Jessica Tang, Ali Abedi, Tracey JF Colella, Shehroz Khan. ARIAL workshop at IJCAI 2025.

From Tasks to Topology: Dorsal and Ventral Streams Emerge in Optimized Neural Networks.
Tahsin Reza, Ewan Jordan, Steven Luo, Kirtan Patel, Jessica Tang, Matthias Niemeier. 2025.
Deep Reinforcement Learning Controller for Indoor Farming. 🪷 Best presenter award.
Jessica Tang. International Student Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021.

Microsoft Research

One of top 20 undergrad students selected.

Led a project on multi-turn agentic attribution: Tokengeist.

illuminAI

Hosted 180 students across Ontario to develop ethical AI systems.

Royal Bank of Canada

One of top 5 undergrad students selected.

Toronto Robotics and AI Lab, aUToronto

Developing algorithms for real-time lane detection and tracking.

Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency

Olivia Rodrigo cover at EngSci Nocturne 2025.

Laufey cover at EngSci Nocturne 2024.

with Ben and Tyler on guitar!

Billy Joel cover at EngSci Nocturne 2023.

Research