Two students from Algoverse AI Research—Abhay Gupta and Philip Meng—have been named 2025 Davidson Fellows, a highly selective national award recognizing exceptional student work by researchers under 18.
They were honored for their AI fairness project, "EnDive: A Cross-Dialect Benchmark for Fairness and Performance in Large Language Models," which measures how modern large language models (LLMs) perform across underrepresented English dialects. As LLMs become more common in education, hiring, and everyday tools, benchmarks like EnDive help evaluate whether systems perform reliably and equitably for different communities.
What is the Davidson Fellows Scholarship?
The Davidson Fellows Scholarship recognizes extraordinary achievements by young students whose work has the potential to create meaningful impact. As 2025 Davidson Fellows, Abhay and Philip receive a $25,000 scholarship along with national recognition for their research.
About "EnDive": A Cross-Dialect AI Fairness Benchmark for LLMs
EnDive focuses on a key challenge in AI fairness: ensuring that language models don't systematically underperform for speakers of dialects that are less represented in mainstream datasets.
Their work introduces a benchmark designed to evaluate both:
• Fairness (whether performance differs across dialect groups), and • Overall model quality (how well LLMs handle real language variation).
This kind of evaluation matters because even subtle performance gaps can affect downstream outcomes—especially when LLMs are used in high-stakes settings like grading, screening, tutoring, and automated communication tools.
Read more and sources
• Research paper (arXiv): EnDive: A Cross-Dialect Benchmark for Fairness and Performance in Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07100 • Davidson Fellows profile (2025): Philip Meng & Abhay Gupta https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-programs/fellows-scholarship/fellows/current-and-past-fellows/2025-fellows/ • Press coverage (Yahoo News): https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/phillips-academy-student-honored-technology-035900679.html?guccounter=1 • Local coverage (Andoverma News): https://andovermanews.com/andover-student-awarded-25000-scholarship/#/
About Algoverse AI Research
Algoverse AI Research is a research mentorship program that supports ambitious students working on real machine learning and AI research—helping them develop strong research taste, technical depth, and the ability to communicate results clearly.
If you're a student interested in AI research, machine learning, LLMs, fairness, or evaluation benchmarks, you can learn more about Algoverse and explore current opportunities here: https://algoverseairesearch.org/
