--- title: "Sydney Levine · Harvard University — author profile and papers" description: "Sydney Levine, Harvard University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sydney-levine/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sydney-levine/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sydney Levine # Sydney Levine Sydney Levine has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Liwei Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwei-jiang/), [Taylor Sorensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taylor-sorensen/), [Yejin Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yejin-choi/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5049634702) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3688-3290) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q90975781) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5049634702) · [43 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5049634702) · [765 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5049634702&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sydney-levine/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 133 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sydney-levine/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6076](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6076) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Sydney+Levine) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sydney+Levine) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sydney+Levine) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sydney+Levine) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2017–2026 · 24 papersEmployment 2017–2022 · Postdoctoral Associate, Brain and Cognitive SciencesEmployment 2017–2019 · Postdoctoral Associate, Media Lab*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2017–2026 · 16 papersEmployment 2017–2022 · Postdoctoral Associate, Psychology*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2022–2025 · 10 papersEmployment since 2022 · Research Scientist](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2025–2026 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey** New Brunswick · United States 2011–2020 · 4 papersEducation 2011–2016 · PhD, Psychology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2026 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**Yale University** New Haven · United States 2005–2009Education 2005–2009 · BA, Cognitive Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yale-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 10 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Safety Research · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems and Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) · [Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Artificial intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/artificial-intelligence/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sydney-levine/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sydney-levine/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sydney-levine/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Value Kaleidoscope: Engaging AI with Pluralistic Human Values, Rights, and Duties](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sorensen-2023-value-kaleidoscope-engaging-ai-pluralistic/)** *(2023 · 116 citations)* AI systems trained on aggregated labels tend to average away real disagreements between legitimate human values, such as honesty versus loyalty to a friend. 2. **[Language Model Alignment in Multilingual Trolley Problems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jin-2024-language-model-alignment-multilingual-trolley/)** *(2024 · 23 citations)* Most moral-alignment benchmarks for LLMs are English-only and reflect mainly US respondents, so it is unclear whether models' moral choices match the preferences of speakers of other languages. 3. **[Can Language Models Reason about Individualistic Human Values and Preferences?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiang-2025-can-language-models-reason-about/)** *(2025 · 21 citations)* The paper argues that pluralistic alignment usually sorts people into predefined groups such as demographics, personality, or culture. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Value Kaleidoscope: Engaging AI with Pluralistic Human Values, Rights, and Duties](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sorensen-2023-value-kaleidoscope-engaging-ai-pluralistic/) [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/)**Taylor Sorensen, Liwei Jiang, Jena Hwang, et al.*2023 · 116 citations* 2. **[Investigating machine moral judgement through the Delphi experiment ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-024-00969-6) Nature Machine Intelligence · no summary yet**Liwei Jiang et al.*2025 · 44 citations* 3. [**Language Model Alignment in Multilingual Trolley Problems arXiv:2407.02273**Zhijing Jin, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Giorgio Piatti, et al.*2024 · 23 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jin-2024-language-model-alignment-multilingual-trolley/) 4. **[Can Language Models Reason about Individualistic Human Values and Preferences?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiang-2025-can-language-models-reason-about/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Liwei Jiang, Taylor Sorensen, Sydney Levine, et al.*2025 · 21 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 17 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Liwei Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwei-jiang/) ×2 - [Taylor Sorensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/taylor-sorensen/) ×2 - [Yejin Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yejin-choi/) ×2 - [Bernhard Scholkopf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernhard-scholkopf/) - [Chandra Bhagavatula](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chandra-bhagavatula/) - [Francesco Ortu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-ortu/) - [Jena D. Hwang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jena-d-hwang/) - [Jiarui Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiarui-liu/) - [Kavel Rao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kavel-rao/) - [Maarten Sap](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-sap/) - [Mrinmaya Sachan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mrinmaya-sachan/) - [Nouha Dziri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nouha-dziri/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/): [Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-aaai-conference-on-artificial-intelligence/2023/) - Nature Machine Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 133 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [33 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sydney-levine/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026