Naomi Caselli is an Assistant Professor of Deaf Education, director of the Deaf Center, and the director of the AI and Education initiative at Boston University. She is hearing, and her first languages are American Sign Language (ASL) and English. She leads a research team that works to make research on language—across education, computer science, linguistics, psychology, and medicine—inclusive of sign languages, and to ensure all deaf children have access to language. To achieve these goals, her research is centered on three questions:

1. How does early language experience shape how deaf children learn language?
2. How is the sign language lexicon structured, learned, and processed?
3. How can we responsibly use AI to make the world more accessible to sign language users?