A person with short hair and blue-rimmed glasses smiles by a river. They are wearing a black top and a light cardigan. A bridge and tree-lined riverbank are visible in the background.

Katy Ilonka Gero

Katy Ilonka Gero is a human-computer interaction researcher, with a focus on creativity and writing. Katy did early work on how creative writers use language models, and recently has been investigating the ethical and cultural implications of using creative writing as training data. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science at Harvard University, as well as a Fellow with the Library Innovation Lab. Her work has been supported by an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, and an Amazon Research Award. She will be joining the faculty at the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney in July, 2025. She is also an essayist and poet; her first book of poetry, The Anxiety of Conception (Nothing to Say Press, 2025), will come out this year. With Kyle Booten, she co-edits Ensemble Park, a literary magazine that collects experiments in human-computer co-writing.