Researcher

Research

I evaluate language models: whether their judgments hold steady when framing, incentives, or the person asking changes, and what they encode about persuasion, harm and refusal. Separately, I design and test learning systems that keep students in charge of their own thinking while they use AI.

Research roles

Research Scientist, TRAP Lab , since 2022. Led by Dr. Broderick Turner of Virginia Tech.
Research Scientist, RISE Lab , since 2018. Led by Dr. C. Malik Boykin of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania.

Peer-reviewed publications

Boykin, C.M., Dasch, S.T., Rice, V., Lakshminarayanan, V.R., Togun, T.A., Brown, S.M. (2021).

Opportunities for a More Interdisciplinary Approach to Measuring Perceptions of Fairness in Machine Learning.

EAAMO ’21, ACM.

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Hui, P., Gysler, S., Uduman, M., Togun, T.A., et al. (2018).

MicroRNA Signatures Discriminate Between Uterine and Ovarian Serous Carcinomas.

Human Pathology, 73, 130–138.

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Vassilakopoulou, M., Togun, T., Dafni, U., Cheng, H., Bordeaux, J., et al. (2014).

In Situ Quantitative Measurement of HER2 mRNA Predicts Benefit from Trastuzumab-Containing Chemotherapy in a Cohort of Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients.

PLoS ONE, 9(6), e99131.

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Liu, Z., Hu, Z., Pan, X., Li, M., Togun, T.A., et al. (2011).

Germline Competency of Parthenogenetic Embryonic Stem Cells from Immature Oocytes of Adult Mouse Ovary.

Human Molecular Genetics, 20(7), 1339–1352.

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Research reports

Apart Research, 2026.

Probing LLM Preferences: Demographic Framing, Elicitation Context, and Incentive-Driven Trade-offs.

Research sprint report.

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Other writing

Togun, T.A. (2022).

Purpose and Problem Solving: Developing Leaders in the Classroom.

Next Gen Learning.

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Talks

Audio Intelligence: A Transparent Framework for Analyzing Long-Form Speech.With Dr. Andre Martin, University of Notre Dame. 2026.
Towards Evaluating Look-Think-Do: AI Coteacher and Learning Management Platform.TRAP Lab Unconference, June 2025.
Look-Think-Do: An AI Co-teacher.With J Phillips. Yale Innovation Summit, Yale Ventures, May 2025.
Exploring the Representation of Clickability in Large Language Models.2025.
The Look-Think-Do Approach: AI-Assisted Education for Agency and Creativity.2025.
GPT's Race and Gender Biases in Hiring: Replication and Insights.2024.

Google Scholar CV