Maty Bohacek

I am a student researcher at Stanford University advised by Prof. Maneesh Agrawala. I work at the intersection of AI and media integrity. In a world that is becoming increasingly AI-mediated, my goal is to build AI systems and networks that are inherently trustworthy and interpretable, resulting in productive, democratic discourse.

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Received the Czech Senate Medal

Best Paper Award at IJCAI-W

Panel at the Moonshot Summit

Keynote at UNYP URC Conference

Upcoming

· New York, NY
Panel

NYU Tisch

· Virtual
Conference

ICLR 2026

· Denver, CO
Conference

CVPR 2026

Snippets of My Work

  • Working with Maneesh Agrawala.
  • We built methods to understand what concepts cannot be generated by image models, enable artists to better understand and interface with AI systems, and more.
  • Currently exploring concept erasure, model weight distances, and more.
  • Working with Sergey Sanovich
  • We are studying the impact of AI content on the information commons.
  • Worked with Thomas Leung, Nick Dufour, Stephanie CY Chan, Nino Scherrer, Roma Patel, Rishub Jain, and others.
  • We built a method to understand competency gaps of language models and their benchmarks and found that cascading linear features in language models help detect and control sycophancy.
  • Worked with the Labs team.
  • We built a membership inference method for image models and a method for detecting AI-generated motion in video.
  • Worked with Evan Ratliff, Samantha Henig, and Sophie Bridges to create a podcast about AI agents and work.
  • Ranked among best of 2025 by the New York Magazine, The Economist, The Information, and a finalist in the iHeart Podcast Awards and The Ambies.
  • Worked with Sarah Barrington and Hany Farid to create DeepSpeak, a dataset and benchmark for deepfake detection. Open-source and licensed to 100+ academic institutions.
  • More versions coming.

Whether you are a researcher exploring collaboration ideas, a journalist writing about AI, a policymaker seeking insight, or an educator looking to apply AI in new ways — I would love to hear from you at maty@stanford.edu.