Chigozirim Ifebi

Chigozirim Ifebi

Biography

ChiChi is a rising senior studying Applied and Computational Math with a minor in Information and Data Science at Caltech. Having grown up in vibrant, multi-ethnic communities in New York, she is motivated by her passion for centering underrepresented minorities in the creation and evaluation of AI systems. ChiChi has research experience applying AI across disciplines such as medical imaging, robotics, and solar physics. More recently, she has applied embedding models to congressional speech data to understand how political discourse has evolved over time with the Alvarez Group, and has conducted interpretability experiments on LLMs to address multilingual jailbreak attacks with a group of independent researchers. Beyond research, ChiChi is passionate about diversifying STEM spaces and making them more equitable. She regularly engages in student advocacy at Caltech, where she has spearheaded petitions to reinstate a Black Studies professor, increase Black and Hispanic admission rates, and organize a Black Studies in STEM course. She serves as the Advocacy Chair of Caltech’s Black Student Union, Vice Chair of a campus-wide Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility Committee, and a Student Assistant for the Center for Inclusion & Diversity. Upon finishing college, ChiChi hopes to pursue a PhD in Human-Centered AI and eventually work in AI policy, adapting laws to rapid advances in AI while centering ethics and justice. In her free time, ChiChi loves to read, play Animal Crossing: New Leaf, scroll Pinterest, and eat out with friends.