Rasika Bhalerao
(she/her/hers)
Assistant Teaching Professor

Research interests
- Ethical computing
- Natural language processing and information retrieval
- Security and privacy
Education
- PhD in Computer Science, New York University
- BS in Statistics and Applied & Computational Math Sciences (Discrete Math and Algorithms), University of Washington
Biography
Rasika Bhalerao is an assistant teaching professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. She earned her doctorate in computer science from New York University. At Northeastern, her area of teaching includes the Align program, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science.
Bhalerao is a part of various organizations, including the Society of Women Engineers, Climate Change AI, Cornell Tech’s Clinic to End Tech Abuse, and ACM SIGCSE. Outside of teaching, she is learning Spanish and Mandarin, and loves to rock climb.
Recent publications
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[TEST-FEB13]-What to Expect When You’re Accessing: An Exploration of User Privacy Rights in People Search Websites
Citation: Kejsi Take, Jordyn Young, Rasika Bhalerao, Kevin Gallagher , Andrea Forte, Damon McCoy, Rachel Greenstadt. (2024). What to Expect When You're Accessing: An Exploration of User Privacy Rights in People Search Websites Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol., 2024, 311-326. https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2024-0118 -
[TEST-FEB13]-My Learnings from Allowing Large Language Models in Introductory Computer Science Classes
Citation: Rasika Bhalerao. (2024). My Learnings from Allowing Large Language Models in Introductory Computer Science Classes SIGCSE (2), 1574-1575. https://doi.org/10.1145/3626253.3635511 -
The Digital-Safety Risks of Financial Technologies for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
Citation: Rosanna Bellini, Kevin Lee, Megan A. Brown, Jeremy Shaffer, Rasika Bhalerao, Thomas Ristenpart. (2023). The Digital-Safety Risks of Financial Technologies for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence USENIX Security Symposium. https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/bellini