About

Yara Kyrychenko is a Research Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2026 as a Gates Scholar and holds a BA (Hons) in Mathematics and Psychology from New York University. Yara was part of The Alan Turing Institute’s Enrichment Scheme, focusing on the social evaluation of AI, and completed a research internship with Nokia Bell Labs’ Responsible AI team on Constitutional AI. She is the recipient of the 2025 Women of the Future Award in AI.

Yara researches the societal impacts of AI, spanning a range of topics such as AI bias, alignment, safety and influence operations. Her multidisciplinary work combines psychological theory with computational methods, mathematical modelling and behavioural experiments.

Research

Yara’s research focuses on:

• Responsible AI
• AI for democratic deliberation
• AI for sustainability
• Social influence, influence operations and misinformation
• Intergroup conflict and social media platforms