is a Senior Sociotechnical Researcher at Google Research based in Venice, CA. She has served as both a researcher and linguist at Google for nearly 10 years. Her current research is focused on building evidence-based community-informed datasets, namely culturally and linguistically diverse ontologies with the goal of improving how identities are represented across Google’s products. In 2020, Erin was a Google Fellow as part of the Trevor Project Fellowship for the award winning Crisis Contact Simulator, featured as the Time’s 100 Best Inventions of 2021. She later applied this work in a second Google.org Fellowship in partnership with Reflex AI in 2023, where she helped craft datasets to support peer-to-peer empathy conversation simulators for the Veteran community. Prior to Google Research, Erin has also worked on ontology design for Google’s Knowledge Graph and text/image classification on Ads Privacy and Safety teams.
Erin holds a PhD in Linguistics from the Unversité Sorbonne Nouvelle funded by an ANRT grant (National Association for Research and Technology in France: partnership between Temis and the Sorbonne Nouvelle) where her focus was on methods in Natural Language Processing and Quantitative Linguistics for information discovery and extraction.
