FAccT research starter pack
Interdisciplinary researchers from the community focused on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in sociotechnical systems.
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@bhecht.bsky.social
Director of Applied Science and Partner at Microsoft. Still kinda an associate professor at Northwestern too. brenthecht.com
@umangsbhatt.bsky.social
Incoming Assistant Professor @ University of Cambridge. Responsible AI. Human-AI Collaboration. Interactive Evaluation. umangsbhatt.github.io
@mkearnsphilly.bsky.social
CS prof at Penn, Amazon Scholar in AWS. Interested in ML theory and related topics, as well as photography and Gilbert and Sullivan. Website: www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns
@kldivergence.bsky.social
Research Scientist at GDM. Statistician. Mostly work on Responsible AI. Academia-industry flip-flopper.
@shakirm.bsky.social
AI, sociotechnical systems, social purpose. Research director at Google DeepMind. Cofounder and Chair at Deep Learning Indaba. FAccT2025 co-program chair. shakirm.com
@wavewriter.bsky.social
Research in inequity of AI, wireless networks. Moves a lot. Puffer coat lover. "Strident... passionate" - reviewer #3. "Enough personality to make lectures worthwhile" - student eval. Professor at University of <State I'm in>, but I don't speak for them.
@fcalmon.bsky.social
Associate Professor @Harvard SEAS. Information theorist, but only asymptotically.
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@davidthewid.bsky.social
Postdoc@Cornell Info Sci. AI ethics, political economy of tech, Human-AI interaction, feminist STS trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me art: instagram.com/davidthewid exCMU/NASA/MSR/IntelLabs. davidwidder.me
@hannawallach.bsky.social
VP and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research NYC. AI evaluation and measurement, responsible AI, computational social science, machine learning. She/her. One photo a day since January 2018: https://www.instagram.com/logisticaggression/
@heyyjudes.bsky.social
CS PhD Student @ Stanford Data, Diversity, and Downstream Impacts https://heyyjudes.github.io
@rajmovva.bsky.social
NLP, ML & society, healthcare. PhD student at Berkeley, previously CS at MIT. https://rajivmovva.com/
@qiaosiwang.bsky.social
🐾Carnegie Bosch Postdoc @ Carnegie Mellon HCII 🤖Mutual Theory of Mind, Human-AI Interaction, Responsible AI. 👩🏻🎓Ph.D. from 🐝Georgia Tech HCC. Prev Google Research, IBM Research, UW-Seattle. She/Her. 🔗 http://qiaosiwang.me/
@victorojewale.bsky.social
PhDing @BrownCS | Algorithm auditing & accountability | Understanding Algorithmic Systems | victorojewale.github.io/ | 9ja boy 🇳🇬
@wesleydeng.bsky.social
Ph.D. @ CMU HCII. Developing tools and processes to support Responsible AI practices on the ground. Currently focusing on AI red-teaming, auditing, and impact assessment. Prev. Microsoft Research, Berkeley EECS. https://www.wesleydeng.com
@emmharv.bsky.social
PhD student @ Cornell info sci | Sociotechnical fairness & algorithm auditing | Previously MSR FATE, Penn | https://emmaharv.github.io/
@strubell.bsky.social
assistant professor, @ltiatcmu.bsky.social. machine learning: LLMs and climate. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them/dad (2 dogs). pro-AI, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist. Website: strubell.github.io
@emmapierson.bsky.social
Assistant professor of CS at UC Berkeley, core faculty in Computational Precision Health. Developing ML methods to study health and inequality. "On the whole, though, I take the side of amazement." https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emmapierson/
@morganklauss.bsky.social
HCI research scientist @ Sony AI. ethical AI, identity, technological harm. Previous: CU Boulder, UMBC, Microsoft Research Fellow. posts my own. https://www.morgan-klaus.com/
@jburrell.bsky.social
Affiliate at Data & Society. Formerly: Professor at UC-Berkeley - School of Information. Latest Pub: ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power (https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm). Currently based in Yokohama (GMT +9).
@jennwv.bsky.social
Sr. Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // More at http://jennwv.com
@upolehsan.bsky.social
🎯 Making AI less evil= human-centered + explainable + responsible AI 💼 Harvard Berkman Klein Fellow | CS Prof. @Northeastern | Data & Society 🏢 Prev-Georgia Tech, {Google, IBM, MSFT}Research 🔬 AI, HCI, Philosophy ☕ F1, memes 🌐 upolehsan.com
@haileyjoren.bsky.social
PhD Student @ UC San Diego Researching reliable, interpretable, and human-aligned ML/AI
@mbogen.bsky.social
Director of the AI Governance Lab @cendemtech.bsky.social / responsible AI + policy
@fieldsmeyer.com
Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School | Fmr: Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President Harris at the White House | Work on civil rights, democracy, tech, and power. Nothing is inevitable. Writing: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com Get in touch: fieldsmeyer.com
@stephmilani.bsky.social
PhD Student in Machine Learning at CMU. On the academic job market! 🐦 twitter.com/steph_milani 🌐 stephmilani.github.io
@iraglobusharris.bsky.social
PhD student at U Penn, interested in bridging responsible and robust algorithm design and practice.
@rocher.lc
senior research fellow at Oxford · UKRI future leaders fellow · i study how data and algorithms shape societies · AI fairness, accountability and transparency · algorithm auditing · photographer, keen 🚴🏻 · they/them · https://rocher.lc (views my own)
@mdmccradden.bsky.social
Bioethicist specializing in ethical and evidence-based integration of technologies in health care. AI Director, Women’s and Children’s Health Network | THRF Clinical Research Fellow, Australian Institute for Machine Learning. Adelaide, South Australia.
@sanmayd.bsky.social
CS prof at VT Innovation Campus, Assoc. Dir., AI for Social Impact, Sanghani Center. Professional: AI and society, EconCS, etc. Chair, ACM SIGAI. Personal: Husband, dad, squash player, cyclist. From Delhi to NoVA, via Boston, upstate NY, STL, others...
@angelamczhou.bsky.social
assistant prof at USC Data Sciences and Operations; phd Cornell ORIE. data-driven decision-making, operations research/management, causal inference, algorithmic fairness/equity angelamzhou.github.io
@borhane.bsky.social
He, him | Data Scientist @ TD Bank | Improving AI Governance | Views my own https://borhane.xyz
@mariadearteaga.bsky.social
Asst Professor, IROM Dept, UT Austin | FAccT EC | PhD, Machine Learning & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon | Algorithmic fairness, human-AI collab | 🇨🇴 💚 she/her/ella.
@adam-elmachtoub.bsky.social
Professor at Columbia University, miserable fan of the Nets and Jets, looking for good doughnuts
@renzheyu.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @columbiauniversity.bsky.social | Responsible AI and educational equity | He/him renzheyu.com
@juandgut.bsky.social
Scholar. Interests: Public Policy, Public Management and Technology. Runner. www.juangutierrez.co
@timrudner.bsky.social
Assistant Professor & Faculty Fellow, NYU. AI Fellow, Georgetown University. Probabilistic methods for robust and transparent ML & AI Governance. Prev: Oxford, Yale, UC Berkeley. https://timrudner.com
@zbucinca.bsky.social
PhD Candidate @Harvard; Human-AI Interaction, Responsible AI zbucinca.github.io
@imadityav.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Cornell. Research in HCI4D, Social Computing, Responsible AI, and Accessibility. https://www.adityavashistha.com/
@photini.bsky.social
I think and write about the impact of technology on society // I teach and do digital humanities at the department of Information Studies at UCL.
@anubrata.bsky.social
Just Finished PhD @ UT Austin; Human-Centered NLP. Language Models https://anubrata.github.io
@mariaa.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Pioneer Centre for AI in Copenhagen, soon-to-be Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CU Boulder 👩💻 NLP, cultural analytics, online communities, narratives, healthcare 🌐 https://maria-antoniak.github.io
@s010n.bsky.social
Researcher, Microsoft Research; Faculty, Information Science, Cornell University
@joft.bsky.social
Prof. of #Statistics, #machinelearning / ethics for #datascience @LSE. Unschooled to community college to PhD @Stanford Technology, institutions, and ideas should serve people, but much of humanity is stuck with this upside-down.
@zwojo.bsky.social
Econ | Cogsci | AI Psychology & Economic Theory Postdoc @ Harvard Economics / HBS http://www.zachary-wojtowicz.com
@adoubleva.bsky.social
Researcher at Google DeepMind | organizer afciworkshop.org | research interests: causality, algorithmic fairness
@danielmalinsky.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Columbia. I study causal inference, graphical models, machine learning, algorithmic (un)fairness, social + environmental determinants of health, etc. Opinions my own. http://www.dmalinsky.com
@angelinawang.bsky.social
Postdoc at Stanford HAI | ML fairness and algorithmic bias | incoming Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech https://angelina-wang.github.io/
@przemyslslaw.bsky.social
CS faculty at University College Dublin and the University of Massachusetts Amherst: responsible AI, social media, news media, computational social science, applied NLP, open-world AI RT≠endorsement, RT=interesting read More: https://przemyslslaw.github.io
@benzevgreen.bsky.social
Assistant professor in the University of Michigan School of Information. https://www.benzevgreen.com
@jlkoepke.bsky.social
senior project director @upturn.org. i work on AI/ML + civil rights research. personal views. www.jlkoepke.com
@maidino.bsky.social
Historian of technology, science, and the welfare state. Occasional maker of policy about those things.
@arjunsubgraph.bsky.social
@alixdunn.com
I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.saysmaybe.com/podcast
@FrankPasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Author of The Black Box Society & New Laws of Robotics; law professor at Cornell Law School & Cornell Tech. [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@FrankPasquale on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@wells.bsky.social
critical race, queer/trans & AsAm studies, algorithmic justice at UMSI all about abolition, transformative justice, free palestine. SSBM (link main), anime, and indie art/zine fan. catch me staffing at anime cons! pan/bi enby 🇹🇼🇮🇩🏳️⚧️
@sherrirose.bsky.social
Stanford Professor | Computational Health Economics & Outcomes | Fair Machine Learning | Causality | Statistics | Health Policy | Health Equity drsherrirose.org Lab manual: stanfordhpds.github.io/lab_manual Personal account
@tamigraph.bsky.social
Climate/technology/labor/death researcher in Oakland. AI hater @datasociety.bsky.social I wrote a book about how techno-solutionism fails us in this life + beyond https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ Views mine www.tamarakneese.com
@natematias.bsky.social
I work with communities on citizen science for safer, fairer, more understanding Internet. Founder: Citizens & Technology Lab. Assistant Prof in Communication at Cornell · Guatemalan-American. @[email protected] natematias.com citizensandtech.org
@markriedl.bsky.social
AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Associate Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
@rcalo.bsky.social
I am a law professor and information scientist at the University of Washington. I have a book coming out next year about law and technology that I hope you read. 💙
@sashamtl.bsky.social
Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
@merbroussard.bsky.social
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@cfiesler.bsky.social
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her
@irenetrampoline.bsky.social
ML for healthcare and health equity. Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley and UCSF. https://irenechen.net/
@nkgarg.bsky.social
I study algorithms/learning/data applied to democracy/markets/society. Asst. professor at Cornell Tech. https://gargnikhil.com/. Helping building personalized Bluesky research feed: https://bsky.app/profile/paper-feed.bsky.social/feed/preprintdigest
@jessicahullman.bsky.social
Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | Uncertainty + decisions | Humans + AI/ML | Blog @statmodeling
@lizz-iek.bsky.social
ML + health equity postdoc by day, tech critic when provoked. afflicted with pop culture brainrot. 📍 SF
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@841io.bsky.social
Associate Professor, CMU. Researcher, Google. Evaluation and design of information retrieval and recommendation systems, including their societal impacts.
@poetofcode.bsky.social
@annalauren.bsky.social
“listen up fives, a ten is speaking” / data, tech, discourse, critique / assoc prof @ UW iSchool
@aolteanu.bsky.social
Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Opinions my own. Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research.
@sapiezynski.bsky.social
Research Scientist @ Northeastern. Privacy, transparency, fairness, computational social science. www.sapiezynski.com
@ndiakopoulos.bsky.social
Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com
@karenlevy.bsky.social
Law/tech, surveillance, work, truckers. Faculty Cornell Information Science, Cornell Law / Fellow @NewAmerica / Data Driven: http://tinyurl.com/57v559mv / www.karen-levy.net
@haldaume3.bsky.social
Human-centered AI #HCAI, NLP & ML. Director TRAILS (Trustworthy AI in Law & Society) and AIM (AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland). Formerly Microsoft Research NYC. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️. he/him.
@aaroth.bsky.social
Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein
@lukestark.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own https://starkcontrast.co/ https://starlingcentre.ca/
@lilianedwards.bsky.social
Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , [email protected]
@azjacobs.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Information @ UMich thinking about assumptions built into AI
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@mmitchell.bsky.social
Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@cyberlyra.bsky.social
Princeton Sociology Prof; ethnographer of NASA; tech policy; digitalSTS; ethics and critical technical practice; mobile Linux. Conscientious objector to personal data economy. https://janet.vertesi.com https://www.optoutproject.net @[email protected]
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@aselbst.bsky.social
UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice; posting not necessarily related. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
@rdbinns.bsky.social
Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford. Football alt at nofoolingreu.bsky.social
@rajiinio.bsky.social
AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
@williamis.bsky.social
Research Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him
@gleemie.bsky.social
Prof UCSD Comm, Faculty Director UCSD Labor Center, author Chasing Innovation and Redacted, TWC SD, co-founder and supporter of Turkopticon, ex-Google worker.
@geomblog.bsky.social
Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.