Dr Rumman Chowdhury is a data scientist and social scientist. She is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Humane Intelligence, a technology nonprofit that builds a community of practice around evaluations of artificial intelligence (AI) models. Dr Chowdhury served as Director of the Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) team at Twitter, as well as the Global Lead for Responsible Al at Accenture Applied Intelligence. She has earned numerous awards and accolades, including Time Magazine’s 100 most Influential People in AI, BBC’s 100 Women, Worthy Magazine’s top 100, the Bay Area’s top 40 under 40, and Forbes’ labeled her one of Five Who are Shaping Al. Dr Chowdhury holds two undergraduate degrees from MIT, a M.S. in Quantitative Methods of the Social Sciences from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego.

• Watch my TED Talk on “Your right to repair AI systems“
• Read my latest op-ed on AI governance in Foreign Policy