Robert Wolfe

Robert Wolfe is an Assistant Professor in the Rutgers iSchool, where his research focuses on understanding and improving the reliability of general-purpose AI models. Wolfe received his Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington for his work on epistemic risks in generative and general-purpose AI. He previously earned Master’s degrees in Computer Science, Information Science, and English Literature.

Wolfe’s ongoing work studies evolving privacy norms around chatbots, applications of AI in high-stakes information work, and uses of AI on social media. His recent collaborations on topics including privacy attacks on large language models, calibration methods for general-purpose AI, justice-oriented neighborhood technologies, trust-building approaches on social media, and novel approaches to AI literacy have been published in venues including ACM CHI, CSCW, SOUPS, ICML, ACL, and IDC.