Verena Rieser

Researcher, Google DeepMind

Joined

July 2019

Names

Verena Rieser

Emails

****@hw.ac.uk (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@deepmind.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Google DeepMind (deepmind.com)

2023 – Present

Full Professor

Heriot-Watt University (hw.ac.uk)

2011 – 2023

Researcher

University of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh (ed.ac.uk)

2008 – 2011

PhD student

University of Saarbruecken (cs.uni-sb.de)

2005 – 2008

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Family

Oliver Lemon

2016 – Present

Expertise

LLM safety

2023 – Present

LLM alignment

2023 – Present

evaluation and red teaming

2023 – Present

ethics and social NLP

2018 – Present

dialogue

2005 – Present

natural language generation

2005 – Present

Publications

Decoding Safety Feedback from Diverse Raters: A Data-driven Lens on Responsiveness to Severity
Pushkar Mishra, Charvi Rastogi, Stephen R Pfohl, Alicia Parrish, Tian Huey Teh, Roma Patel, Mark Diaz, Ding Wang, Michela Paganini, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Lora Aroyo, Verena Rieser
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Multi-turn Evaluation of Anthropomorphic Behaviours in Large Language Models
Lujain Ibrahim, Canfer Akbulut, Rasmi Elasmar, Charvi Rastogi, Minsuk Kahng, Meredith Ringel Morris, Kevin R. McKee, Verena Rieser, Murray Shanahan, Laura Weidinger
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
CulturalFrames: Assessing Cultural Expectation Alignment in Text-to-Image Models and Evaluation Metrics
Shravan Nayak, Mehar Bhatia, Xiaofeng Zhang, Verena Rieser, Lisa Anne Hendricks, Sjoerd van Steenkiste, Yash Goyal, Karolina Stanczak, Aishwarya Agrawal
- MoFA Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Whose View of Safety? A Deep DIVE Dataset for Pluralistic Alignment of Text-to-Image Models
Charvi Rastogi, Tian Huey Teh, Pushkar Mishra, Roma Patel, Ding Wang, Mark Diaz, Alicia Parrish, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Zoe Ashwood, Michela Paganini, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Verena Rieser, Lora Aroyo
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Insights on Disagreement Patterns in Multimodal Safety Perception across Diverse Rater Groups
Charvi Rastogi, Tian Huey Teh, Pushkar Mishra, Roma Patel, Zoe Ashwood, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Mark Diaz, Michela Paganini, Alicia Parrish, Ding Wang, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Lora Aroyo, Verena Rieser
- SafeGenAi Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Century: A Framework and Dataset for Evaluating Historical Contextualisation of Sensitive Images
Canfer Akbulut, Kevin Robinson, Maribeth Rauh, Isabela Albuquerque, Olivia Wiles, Laura Weidinger, Verena Rieser, Yana Hasson, Nahema Marchal, Iason Gabriel, William Isaac, Lisa Anne Hendricks
- ICLR 2025 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Century: A Dataset of Sensitive Historical Images
Canfer Akbulut, Kevin Robinson, Maribeth Rauh, Isabela Albuquerque, Olivia Wiles, Laura Weidinger, Verena Rieser, Yana Hasson, Nahema Marchal, Iason Gabriel, William Isaac, Lisa Anne Hendricks
- SoLaR Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Thumbs Up/Down: Untangling Challenges of Fine-Grained Feedback for Text-to-Image Generation
Katherine M. Collins, Najoung Kim, Yonatan Bitton, Verena Rieser, Shayegan Omidshafiei, Yushi Hu, Sherol Chen, Senjuti Dutta, Minsuk Chang, Kimin Lee, Youwei Liang, Georgina Evans, Sahil Singla, Gang Li, Adrian Weller, Junfeng He, Deepak Ramachandran, Krishnamurthy Dj Dvijotham
- ICML 2024 Workshop MHFAIA Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Quality-agnostic Image Captioning to Safely Assist People with Vision Impairment
Lu Yu, Malvina Nikandrou, Jiali Jin, Verena Rieser
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Adversarial Textual Robustness of Visual Dialog
Lu Yu, Verena Rieser
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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