Meet Our Network
The GRAIL network is made up of researchers and academics studying artificial intelligence, from computer scientists and statisticians to national security experts and economists. Meet our network (listed alphabetically by last name):

James Bessen
ECONOMIST, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Technology & Policy Research Initiative at Boston University School of Law

Sandra Braman

Robin Burke
PROFESSOR, RESEARCHER
Department of Information Science at DePaul University

Ryan Calo
CO-DIRECTOR, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
University of Washington Tech Policy Lab

Corinne Cath-Speth
DOCTORAL STUDENT, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST
Doctoral Student at the Oxford Internet Institute

Ravit Dotan

Jonathan Frankle
PhD STUDENT
PhD Student in Machine Learning at MIT

Avi Goldfarb
PROFESSOR, CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST
Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare, Professor of Marketing at Rotman, and Chief Data Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab

Ben Green
PROFESSOR, AUTHOR
Postdoctoral Scholar in the Michigan Society of Fellows and an Assistant Professor in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

José Hernández-Orallo

Joris van Hoboken

Margaret Hu
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, POLICY ADVISOR
Washington and Lee University School of Law

Joshua Kroll

Kristian Lum
LEAD STATISTICIAN
Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG)

Fenwick McKelvey

Shira Mitchell

Shobita Parthasarathy
PROFESSOR, AUTHOR
Professor of Public Policy and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program, at the University of Michigan

Daniel Rock
PhD CANDIDATE, RESEARCHER
PhD Candidate at MIT Sloan and Researcher at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

Saiph Savage
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DIRECTOR
Affiliate Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in HCDE, Director of WVU HCI

Robert Seamans, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
New York University’s Stern School of Business

Andrew Selbst

Alarith Uhde

Suresh Venkatasubramanian
PROFESSOR
University of Utah

Stefaan Verhulst

Baobao Zhang
PhD CANDIDATE, RESEARCHER
PhD candidate in Yale University’s Political Science Department, research affiliate with the Center for the Governance of AI at the University of Oxford

Sebastian Zimmeck
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wesleyan University