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Executive Chairs

... Irene Chen is an Assistant Professor in Computational Precision Health, EECS, and Berkeley AI Research. She studies machine learning systems for healthcare to be more robust, impactful, and equitable. Her work has been published in machine learning conferences (NeurIPS, AAAI) and medical journals (Nature Medicine, Lancet Digital Health), and has been covered by media outlets including MIT Tech Review, NPR/WGBH, and Stat News. Her work has been recognized by best paper and best poster awards, faculty research awards from Google and Apple Machine Learning, and Rising Star awards in EECS, Machine Learning, and Data Science.


... Deborah Raji is a Mozilla Fellow and EECS PhD student, who is interested in questions on algorithmic auditing and evaluation. In the past, she worked closely with the Algorithmic Justice League initiative to highlight bias in deployed AI products. She has also worked with Googleʼs Ethical AI team and been a research fellow at the Partnership on AI and AI Now Institute at New York University working on various projects to operationalize ethical considerations in ML engineering practice. Recently, she was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Tech Review 35 Under 35 Innovators.


... Colleen Chien is a Professor of Law who applies a range of empirical and analytical methods to problems in innovation, intellectual property, artificial intelligence, and the criminal justice system. She is the founder of the Paper Prisons Initiative (paperprisons.org) and a winner of the American Law Institute’s Early Career Award. She has testified numerous times before Congress and has had the privilege of serving in the Obama White House and in the Biden Administration, for the Department of Commerce and the US Patent and Trademark Office.