I’m Ruchira, a PhD Researcher in NLP and AI at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, supervised by Dr. Anders Søgaard. I’m affiliated with the CoAStaL Lab and the Centre for Philosophy of AI. I’m currently an AI Research Engineer Intern at Refractal AI in London. From June to July 2026, I was a Visiting Researcher at the LRE Lab at ETH Zurich, supervised by Dr. Mrinmaya Sachan.

I will be on the job market in early 2027. I’m open to roles in both academia and industry.

Research

I study evaluation of language systems: what we should measure, how reliable our measurements are, and how results can be useful to actual users of such systems. My work draws on many disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive sciences, neuroscience, etc. For more, see my Research Projects.

Academic Affiliations

• Research Fellow, EvalEval Coalition (2025–Present). Contributing to AI evaluation and reporting research, including user research and interviews informing interface design.
• Open Science Lead, Cohere Labs (2024–Present). Co-leading the Research Connections programme, organising research talks and collaboration sessions for a global community of 200+ researchers.

Academic Services

• Program Committee Member, Measuring What Matters, Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) (2026).
• Teaching Assistant, NLP Course, University of Copenhagen (2023–Present). I teach undergraduate and graduate students in natural language processing. Helping students get their first foothold in the field remains one of the most rewarding parts of my PhD.
• Reviewer, ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS and ICML.

Beyond the Desk

I’m into Historical European Martial Arts, travelling to cold places and reading.