Aaron J. Snoswell

I am a computer scientist and research fellow in AI accountability at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), based at QUT in Brisbane, Australia. My PhD "Modeling and Explaining Behavior With Inverse Reinforcement Learning" was awarded in 2022 from the University of Queensland and developed a new theory and algorithms for inverse reinforcement learning in the maximum conditional entropy and multiple intent settings. My ongoing research is in the development of socio-technical interventions for reducing toxicity in the foundation model machine learning paradigm, looking in particular at the ways sexism and misogyny manifest in large language models. Prior to academia, I worked in industry as a cross-disciplinary mechatronic engineer in medical device research and development, pilot and astronaut training, robotics, and software engineering.