Yara is a Research Fellow affiliated with the Center for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence and the Department of Psychology. She completed her PhD from 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 lectures and supervises undergraduate dissertations in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences.
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 modeling and behavioral experiments.
Kyrychenko, Y., Brik, T., van der Linden, S., & Roozenbeek, J. (2024). Social identity correlates of social media engagement before and after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Nature Communications, 15(1), 8127.
*Hu, T., *Kyrychenko, Y., Rathje, S., Collier, N., Van Der Linden, S., & Roozenbeek, J. (2025). Generative language models exhibit social identity biases. Nature Computational Science, 5(1), 65-75.
Kyrychenko, Y., Zhou, K., Bogucka, E., & Quercia, D. (2025). C3AI: Crafting and evaluating constitutions for Constitutional AI. In Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2025 (pp. 3204-3218).
