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short_description: The AIM Lab at SCU builds equitable AI systems.
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# AIM Lab — Inclusive & Multimodal AI
**Santa Clara University | Directed by Dr. Oana Ignat**
The **AIM Lab** builds equitable AI systems for people — across languages, cultures, and modalities.
We work at the intersection of:
- 🌐 **Cross-cultural & multilingual AI**
- 🤝 **Multi-agent and pluralistic alignment**
- 🖼️ **Multimodal generation (text, image, video)**
- 🎓 **AI for education and mentorship**
- ⚖️ **Fairness, ethics, and representation**
Our research combines dataset creation, AI model design, and comprehensive evaluation to develop practical AI solutions that are both accurate and socially grounded.
## Recent Projects
- **MentorQA** — multilingual mentorship-focused QA beyond factual correctness. 📄 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.17173
- **MemeXGen** — cross-cultural meme transcreation (Chinese ↔ US), studying how multimodal humor adapts across cultures while preserving intent and meaning. 📄 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.02510
- **MosAIG** — multicultural text-to-image generation benchmark evaluating how well generative models represent diverse cultural identities. 📄 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15972
> **Ultimately, research is for people and can enable demographic-aware technologies that make a lasting positive impact on society.** — [*Why AI is WEIRD*](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/35092)
📍 Santa Clara University, Silicon Valley
🌐 https://oanaignat.github.io/aim/
🏫 https://www.scu.edu/engineering/faculty/ignat-oana/ |