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Zara Hall

Hi! I am a master’s student at Columbia University, where I study computer science. I am broadly interested in developing AI systems that are trustworthy and responsible. I am grateful to work with Kathy McKeown and Rich Zemel.

Something about yourself

email: zyh2000 [at] columbia dot edu

Research

Publications:

• Guiding LLM Decision-Making with Fairness Reward Models.

  with Melanie Subbiah, Thomas Zollo, Richard Zemel, Kathleen McKeown

  NeurIPS 2025

• D-Hacking

  with Emily Black, Talia Gillis

  ACM FAccT 2024

• Pulsed nano-ESI: Application in ion mobility-ms and insights into spray dynamics

  with William McMahon, Rohan Dalvi, Joseph Lesniewski, Kaveh Jorabchi

  JASMS 2020

  
  

   

Teaching

I have been a teaching assistant for the following classes at Columbia:

• Calculus II, III, and IV

• Linear Algebra

• Introduction to Java