About
Hi! I am a final-year computer science PhD candidate at Stanford, advised by
Carlos Guestrin and supported by the
NSF GRFP Fellowship.
I care about making ML models reliable and trustworthy. I'm particularly interested in
equipping users to interrogate model generations as model capabilities scale.
Recently, I've been thinking about LLM citations, complementary human-AI performance, and what verifiability means to legal professionals!
Previously, I was at UC Berkeley, where I was
fortunate to work with
Ben Recht and Esther Rolf.
Talks
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Orrick: Behind the Scenes: Legal AI Applications and Citations · July 2026
— Conversation with Vedika Mehera, Director of Orrick Labs, about the state of legal AI applications, explainability, and citations for Orrick's 2026 summer associate class.
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CodeX & Stanford Law School AI Initiative: CS x Law Evening · May 2026
— Given the reputational carnage from hallucinated legal AI citations, I discussed LLM citations, why they fail, and some predictions for the trajectory of legal AI.
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Civil Bench Seminar at the Los Angeles Superior Court · May 2026
— Shared our recent work on AI assistance for debt collection case review with the civil judges of LA Court––the largest trial court in the nation. Debt collection cases account for nearly a quarter of all civil cases. Courthouses are already racing to process crowded dockets and caseload is increasing even further! We need to work on safely equipping courts with reliable assistive AI, while preserving judicial discretion.
More Talks
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ACM CS & Law · March 2026
— Presented a law student user study of our AI case review assistant.
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JURIX AI for Access to Justice · December 2025
— Presented on the development of our AI assistant for real-world case review.
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Code for Humanities Guest Lecture · June 2025
— Presented on LLMs to a group of Stanford humanities professors learning how to code! We covered different steps of the model training pipeline and why hallucinations are possible.
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Wonderfest · April 2024
— An open-to-all public session, where I got to talk about LLM citations and why they aren't reliable.
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NeurIPS ATTRIB · December 2023
— Workshop spotlight! Presented our unifying framework for training data attribution and LLM citations.
Papers
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AI Assistance for Court Review of Default Judgments
Theodora Worledge, Othman Bensouda Koraichi, Daniel Bernal, Aviv Caspi, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Carlos Guestrin, David Freeman Engstrom
AIES, 2026
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The Extractive-Abstractive Spectrum: Uncovering Verifiability Trade-offs in LLM Generations
Theodora Worledge, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Carlos Guestrin
Under Review at TACL, 2024
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Unifying Corroborative and Contributive Attributions in Large Language Models
Theodora Worledge*, Judy Hanwen Shen*, Nicole Meister, Caleb Winston, Carlos Guestrin
SaTML, 2024
* Co-first authors
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Representation matters: Assessing the importance of subgroup allocations in training data
Esther Rolf, Theodora Worledge, Benjamin Recht, Michael I. Jordan
ICML, 2021