I’m an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. I’m also affiliated with Information Science.
Previously, I was a Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI and a postdoc at the Pioneer Centre for AI at the University of Copenhagen. I completed my PhD in Information Science at Cornell University, advised by David Mimno, and my master’s degree in Computational Linguistics at the University of Washington. I’ve also spent time at places like ETH Zurich, Microsoft Research FATE, Twitter, and Facebook.
My research focuses on natural language processing and cultural analytics, and I develop and critically evaluate computational methods to analyze how language reflects culture and society. I frequently collaborate with interdisciplinary teams in healthcare, the humanities, and the social sciences.
Some recent themes of interest include probes of pretraining datasets, social storytelling in online communities, poetry as data, narrative medicine, and investigations of how people are actually using language models, especially for creative and personal goals.
🎓 I’m recruiting students to join CU Boulder in Fall 2026; check the FAQ to learn more!
📝 New work about poems, whitespace, and linearization methods accepted at EMNLP
📝 New work about research cultures and LLM adaptations accepted at ACL
| Dec 2025 | Invited to a working group on the "Science of Stories" at the Santa Fe Institute |
| Oct 2025 | Invited to the Humanistic AI Workshop at the University of Chicago |
| Oct 2025 | Presenting work at COLM and the NLP4Democracy Workshop in Montreal |
| Oct 2025 | Invited to speak at Colgate University in NY |
| Sep 2025 | Invited to the Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute hosted by Schmidt Sciences in Paris |
| Sep 2025 | Speaking at a workshop on "AI. Culture. Democracy. Now." hosted by the Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Network in Atlanta |
Research Borderlands: Analysing Writing Across Research Cultures
Shaily Bhatt, Tal August, Maria Antoniak
ACL 2025
Trust No Bot: Personal Disclosures in Human-LLM Conversations
Maria Antoniak*, Niloofar Mireshghallah*, Yash More*, Yejin Choi, Golnoosh Farnadi
COLM 2024
Where Do People Tell Stories Online? Story Detection Across Online Communities
Maria Antoniak, Joel Mire, Maarten Sap, Elliott Ash, Andrew Piper
ACL 2024
NLP for Maternal Healthcare: Perspectives and Guiding Principles in the Age of LLMs
Maria Antoniak, Aakanksha Naik, Carla S. Alvarado, Lucy Lu Wang, Irene Y. Chen
FAccT 2024
Bad Seeds: Evaluating Lexical Methods for Bias Measurement
Maria Antoniak, David Mimno
ACL 2021
Narrative Paths and Negotiation of Power in Birth Stories
Maria Antoniak, David Mimno, Karen Levy
CSCW 2019
Fall 2025: NLP for Cultural Analytics (University of Colorado Boulder, Computer Science)
Winter 2023: NLP for Cultural Analytics (University of Washington, Linguistics)
I’ve led or co-led sessions at ICWSM, FAccT, Bell Labs, and the popular NLP+CSS 201 tutorial series. I’ve also taught similar public-facing courses for the Hertie School in Berlin, the Brown Institute at Columbia, and the IDEAS Summer School at Northeastern.
I was one of the lead organizers for AI for Humanists, a series of tutorials and workshops that guide interdisciplinary researchers in using large language models.
I’m the lead builder and maintainer for some cultural analytics tools: