Hi! My name is Sofie Goethals. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia Business School, supervised by Professor Sandra Matz. Prior to that, I obtained my PhD in the Applied Data Mining group at the University of Antwerp, supervised by Professor David Martens.
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2025-06 📄 New paper: Cash or Comfort? How LLMs value your inconvenience!
2025-06 🧑💼 Joining UMAP 2026 as Proceedings Chair!
2025-05 🏛 Attending the Summerschool on Responsible AI and human rights at Mila in Montreal, Canada!
2025-05 ✅ Two papers accepted at UMAP 2025!
What If the Prompt Were Different? Counterfactual Explanations for the Characteristics of Generative Outputs
Words reveal wants: How well can simple LLM-based AI agents replicate people’s choices based on their social media posts
2025-05 🗣 Joining as a Panelist in the Selected Papers Authors Panel at the C3NLP workshop!
Research Interests
Trustworthy Machine Learning (Transparency, Fairness, Privacy); Explainable AI; Computational Social Science.
Employment
- September 2024 - September 2025: Postdoctoral researcher, Columbia Business School
- Supported by FWO postdoctoral fellowship, BAEF and Fulbright
- September 2020 - September 2024: PhD researcher, University of Antwerp
- Supported by FWO doctoral fellowship
- January 2024 - March 2024: Visiting researcher, Oxford Internet Institute (as part of the Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies)
- Supported by FWO travel grant
- January 2023 - May 2023: Visiting researcher, NYU Stern
- Supported by FWO travel grant
- 2020: Intern, Accenture Liquid Studios
Education
- 2019 - 2020: Master in Artificial Intelligence, KU Leuven
- 2017 - 2019: Master in Business Engineering, KU Leuven
- 2014 - 2017: Bachelor in Business Engineering, KU Leuven
Other activities
- 2022 - 2024: Ambassador and organizer of Women in Data Science Belgium