I’m an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where I’m also affiliated with the Department of Information Science.
My research focuses on natural language processing and cultural analytics. I develop and critically evaluate computational methods to analyze how language reflects culture and society, particularly in online communities and healthcare settings.
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 Cortex, and Facebook Core Data Science.
☀️ I’m moving to Boulder in August!
🎓 I’m recruiting students to join CU Boulder in Fall 2026; check the FAQ to learn more!
📝 New work about research cultures and LLM adaptations accepted at ACL
| Jun 2025 | Attending FAccT in Athens |
| May 2025 | Invited talk at the Conference on "Social Science and Generative AI" at the Sciences Po médialab in Paris |
| May 2025 | Presenting at the Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative in Geneva |
| Apr 2025 | Leading a workshop at COMPTEXT 2025 in Vienna: slides |
| Mar 2025 | Teaching a course at the Centre for Excellence in the Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw |
| Mar 2025 | Attending the "Doing AI Differently" Workshop hosted by the Alan Turing Institute in London |
| Mar 2025 | Attending the AI STORIES Workshop in Bergen |
| Feb 2025 | Invited talk at the Institute for Analytical Sociology in Norrköping |
| Feb 2025 | Invited to the Lorentz Center workshop on "Impressed by Reading: Measuring the Impact" in Leiden |
| Jan 2025 | Invited talk at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing in Saarbrücken |
| Dec 2024 | Attending the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) conference in Aarhus |
| Oct 2024 | Invited talk at the Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart |
| Oct 2024 | Invited talk at the Statistics Seminar at Uppsala University |
| Oct 2024 | Attending the conference for Danish Digitization, Data Science, and AI in Nyborg |
| Oct 2024 | Invited talk at the NLP Workshop at the Interacting Minds Center at Aarhus University |
| Sep 2024 | Attending the Humanities and AI Virtual Institute at Oxford |
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: