Bio

Jenn Wortman Vaughan is a Senior Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research in New York City, where she studies the relationships between people and AI systems, with a particular focus on meaningful human engagement, transparency and interpretability, AI evaluation and measurement, and responsible AI in practice. Her intellectual roots are in machine learning theory and algorithmic economics, and she now often draws on methods from human-computer interaction and the social sciences to investigate how people understand, interact with, and are affected by AI systems.

Before joining Microsoft Research in 2012, Jenn was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCLA and a Computing Innovation Fellow at Harvard. She received her Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has been recognized with the NSF CAREER Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and Penn’s Rubinoff dissertation award.

Beyond her research, Jenn is active in mentoring and research community leadership. She has served as Program Co-Chair of NeurIPS and FAccT and is a co-founder of the Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Workshop.

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