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