Project Rachel: Can an AI Become a Scholarly Author?
Speaker (s):
Martin Monperrus
Professor
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
| Date: Time: Venue: | | 12 January 2026, Monday 2:30pm – 3:30pm School of Computing &
Information Systems 2 (SCIS 2)
Level 4, Seminar Room 4-3
Singapore Management University
90 Stamford Road
Singapore 178903
Please register by 11 January 2026 We look forward to seeing you at this research seminar. 
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About the Talk
This talk documents Project Rachel, an action research study that created and tracked a complete AI academic identity named Rachel So. Through careful publication of AI-generated research papers, we investigate how the scholarly ecosystem responds to AI authorship. Rachel So published 10+ papers between March and October 2025, was cited, and received a peer review invitation. We discuss the implications of AI authorship on publishers, researchers, and the scientific system at large. This work contributes empirical action research data to the necessary debate about the future of scholarly communication with super human, hyper capable AI systems.
About the Speaker
Martin Monperrus is Professor of Software Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. His research lies in the field of software engineering with a current focus on automatic program repair, AI for code and distributed ledgers. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Rennes. Homepage: https://www.monperrus.net/martin/
