Patty Liu

third year CS PhD student at Princeton University

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Hello! I’m Patty, a third year PhD student in Computer Science at Princeton University the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) advised by Prof. Peter Henderson. I am interested in the ethics of algorithmic systems in assisting decision making, both in understanding the impacts of these systems on society and in building systems that align with specific groups’ needs. Recently I have worked on projects at the intersection of AI and law, in particular understanding how AI tools can empower lawyers and studying the risks of wide AI adoption in the legal system.

Before Princeton, I graduated with a BASc in Engineering Science Machine Intelligence from the University of Toronto in 2024. I interned at the Vector Institute advised by Prof. Nicolas Papernot and Prof. Rahul G. Krishnan. I worked on topics related to fairness and privacy in Machine Learning, as well as Machine Learning applications in healthcare.

selected publications

  1. arXiv
    Who Checks the Citations? Benchmarking Legal Hallucination Detection
    Patty Liu, Dominik Stammbach, and Peter Henderson
    2026
  2. FAccT
    How Can AI Augment Access to Justice? Public Defenders’ Perspectives on AI Adoption
    Inyoung Cheong, Patty Liu, Dominik Stammbach, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2026