R. Michael Alvarez

Full Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Joined

June 2023

Names

R. Michael Alvarez (Preferred)

Emails

****@caltech.edu (Confirmed)

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****@hss.caltech.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Full Professor

Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology (caltech.edu)

1992 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs
Pengrui Han, Rafal Kocielnik, Peiyang Song, Ramit Debnath, Dean Mobbs, Anima Anandkumar, R. Michael Alvarez
- ResponsibleFM @ NeurIPS 2025
- Readers: Everyone
The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs
Pengrui Han, Rafal Dariusz Kocielnik, Peiyang Song, Ramit Debnath, Dean Mobbs, Anima Anandkumar, R. Michael Alvarez
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
The Personality Illusion: Revealing Dissociation Between Self-Reports & Behavior in LLMs
Pengrui Han, Rafal Dariusz Kocielnik, Peiyang Song, Ramit Debnath, Dean Mobbs, Anima Anandkumar, R. Michael Alvarez
- LAW
- Readers: Everyone
Tracing Human-like Traits in LLMs: Origins, Real-World Manifestation, and Controllability
Pengrui Han, Rafal Dariusz Kocielnik, Peiyang Song, Ramit Debnath, Dean Mobbs, Anima Anandkumar, R. Michael Alvarez
- MoFA Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Off-policy Predictive Control with Causal Sensitivity Analysis
Myrl G Marmarelis, Ali Hasan, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli, R. Michael Alvarez, Anima Anandkumar
- UAI 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Empowering Domain Experts to Detect Social Bias in Generative AI with User-Friendly Interfaces
Roy Jiang, Rafal Kocielnik, Adhithya Prakash Saravanan, Pengrui Han, R. Michael Alvarez, Anima Anandkumar
- NeurIPS XAIA 2023
- Readers: Everyone

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