Santa Clara University | Directed by Dr. Oana Ignat
The AIM Lab builds equitable AI systems for people — across languages, cultures, and modalities.
We work at the intersection of:
- 🌐 Cross-cultural & multilingual AI
- 🤝 Multi-agent and pluralistic alignment
- 🖼️ Multimodal generation (text, image, video)
- 🎓 AI for education and mentorship
- ⚖️ Fairness, ethics, and representation
Our research combines dataset creation, AI model design, and comprehensive evaluation to develop practical AI solutions that are both accurate and socially grounded.
- MentorQA — multilingual mentorship-focused QA beyond factual correctness. 📄 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.17173
- MemeXGen — cross-cultural meme transcreation (Chinese ↔ US), studying how multimodal humor adapts across cultures while preserving intent and meaning. 📄 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.02510
- MosAIG — multicultural text-to-image generation benchmark evaluating how well generative models represent diverse cultural identities. 📄 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15972
Ultimately, research is for people and can enable demographic-aware technologies that make a lasting positive impact on society. — Why AI is WEIRD
📍 Santa Clara University, Silicon Valley
🌐 https://oanaignat.github.io/aim/
🏫 https://www.scu.edu/engineering/faculty/ignat-oana/