July 29, 2025 | 6 minute read
Two Algoverse Students Named 2025 Davidson Fellows for AI Fairness Research
Hey, Kevin from Algoverse AI Research here!
I’m incredibly proud to share another milestone that speaks to just how far our students can go. Two of our alumni, Abhay Gupta and Philip Meng, were recently named 2025 Davidson Fellows, one of the nation’s most prestigious honors for young researchers.
To put this into perspective, the Davidson Fellows Scholarship selects only 20 recipients nationwide from over 1,200 applicants each year, recognizing exceptional young people under 18 whose original research demonstrates significant potential for real-world impact (Davidson Institute).
Abhay and Philip’s work stood out for its rigor and social impact in advancing fairness and equity in large language models.
Their first paper, AAVENUE: Detecting LLM Biases on NLU Tasks in AAVE via a Novel Benchmark, introduced a benchmark for detecting dialect bias in AI systems. The project was accepted to both NeurIPS High School Track 2024 and the EMNLP Positive Impact Track 2024, representing some of the most selective venues for AI research. Their follow-up study, EnDive: A Cross-Dialect Benchmark for Fairness and Performance in Large Language Models, expanded this work into a broader multilingual fairness framework and was accepted to NAACL SRW 2025, ICLR 2025, and EMNLP Findings 2025.
For context, Abhay joined Algoverse with no prior experience in AI or research. Within months, he co-authored multiple peer-reviewed publications, now cited by researchers at Microsoft, Google, Stanford, CMU, Columbia, Oxford, and the University of Washington. Since then, he has completed research internships at Stanford, MIT, and Harvard, and this year was awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellowship for his pioneering work on equitable AI.
Philip, his collaborator on both papers, was also honored at the 2025 Davidson Fellowship Award Ceremony for his leadership in research and his ongoing contributions to AI fairness. Together, their work represents the kind of socially responsible AI research that defines the Algoverse mission.
We’ve attached a YouTube link where you can watch the award ceremony and hear directly from the recipients. It’s an inspiring reminder of what’s possible when ambitious students are given structure, mentorship, and a platform for real impact.