I am Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, & Policy at University of California, San Diego.

I am also affiliate faculty in UCSD’s Department of Computer Science & Engineering.

I have the honor of serving on advisory boards for various organizations including:
National AI Advisory Committee (NAIAC)
Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)
Computer Science & Telecommunications Board (National Academies)
Partnership to Advance Responsible Technology (PART)
Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI)
Topos Institute
AI Community of Practice (US Government)

I have received a James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award (2008) and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2017)

Previously, I was the L.L. Thurstone Professor of Philosophy & Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.
While at CMU, I served as the Chief Ethicist of CMU’s Block Center for Technology & Society
and co-director of CMU’s Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity (IDeaS)

My research interests are at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive science, and machine learning, using ideas, methods, and frameworks from each to advance our understanding of complex, interdisciplinary problems. I have explored the ethical, psychological, and policy issues around AI and robotics in transportation, healthcare, privacy, and security. I have done significant research in computational cognitive science. And I have developed multiple novel causal discovery algorithms for complex types of observational and experimental data.