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Marshall Van Alstyne

Marshall Van Alstyne is the Questrom Chair of Information Systems at Boston University where he studies the economics of information.

Mostafa Abdou

Mostafa Abdou is a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University’s Neuroscience Institute, exploring the intersections of language, psychiatry, and…

Marwa Abdulhai

Marwa Abdulhai is an incoming Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.

Doaa Abu-Elyounes Bastug

Doctor Doaa Abu-Elyounes is a Program Specialist for Ethics of Artificial Intelligence at UNESCO, and she is leading the implementation of the UNESCO…

Addie Achan

Addie Achan is the Founder and Principal Investigator of The Kaleidoscope Project.

Marc Aidinoff

Marc Aidinoff is a historian of science, technology, and the state, as well as a public policymaker. An assistant professor in the Department of…

Ifeoma Ajunwa

Dr. Ifeoma Ajunwa, J.D., LL.M, Ph.D., AIGP, an award-winning tenured law professor, is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory Law School,…

Sabriya Alam

Sabriya is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where she works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human-computer…

Kendra Albert

Kendra Albert is a technology lawyer and a scholar of technology, gender, and power. They are currently a partner at [Albert Sellars LLP]…

Virgilio Almeida

Prof. Virgílio Almeida is the author of Governance for the Digital World (2020) and Algorithmic Institutionalism (2023), the latter of which argues…

Beth Altringer Eagle

Beth Altringer Eagle teaches design at Dartmouth, where she directs the Design Initiative at Dartmouth.

Aaron Alva

Aaron Alva is a technologist & attorney who strategically advises on privacy, security, & AI governance issues through the Alva Strategy Center.

Santiago Amador

Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University and Master in Science from the University of Oxford.

Joanne Armitage

Joanne Armitage is a digital media practitioner, researcher and artist.

Lena Armstrong

Lena Armstrong is a computer science PhD student at Harvard University and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow.

Gabe Armstrong-Scott

Gabe Armstrong-Scott is a humanitarian public health innovation consultant and advisor to Rt Hon Dame Jacinda Ardern.

Gwyn Arney-Sutherland

Gwyn Arney-Sutherland works to improve patient safety by advancing medical device interoperability.

Chinmayi Arun

Chinmayi Arun is Executive Director of the Information Society Project (ISP) and a Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School, where she has taught…

Lisa Austin

Lisa Austin is a Professor at Jackman Law, University of Toronto.

Margo Bagley

Margo A. Bagley is an Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, and is a leading expert on international patent law and…

Joe Bak-Coleman

Joseph Bak-Coleman is a computational social scientist whose research explores how collectives make decisions in the face of uncertainty, with a…

Aparna Balagopalan

Aparna Balagopalan is a Research Scientist at WRITER in New York City.

Louis Barclay

Louis is a British technologist who went viral for making Unfollow Everything, a browser extension that got him banned from Facebook and led to a…

Solon Barocas

Solon Barocas is a Senior Principal Researcher in the New York City lab of Microsoft Research, where he is a member of the Fairness, Accountability,…

John Basl

John is associate professor of philosophy at Northeastern University and an associate director at the Northeastern Ethics Institute where he leads AI…

Zsolt Bátori

Zsolt Bátori is a philosopher of art, a photography theorist, a practicing fine art photographer, and a curator.

Christopher Bavitz

Christopher T. Bavitz is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Experiential and Clinical Education at Harvard Law School. He is…

Susan Benesch

Susan Benesch founded and directs the Dangerous Speech Project, an independent research team for studying content that can inspire violence - and…

Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at Harvard Law and a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman…

Fran Berman

Dr. Fran Berman is an award winning-data scientist, pioneer in public interest technology, and community leader and builder.

Fernando Bermejo

Fernando is co-principal investigator at Media Cloud and leads the Media Ecosystems Analysis Group (MEAG). His research focuses on media…

Elettra Bietti

Elettra is an Associate Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University.

Sam Blackman

Sam Blackman is a technology entrepreneur with a background in philosophy, logic, computer science, law, and education.

Seán Boddy

Seán Boddy is an AI safety and geopolitics researcher whose work focuses on the governance, security, and social implications of advanced AI.

Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Doreen Bogdan-Martin took office as Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on 1 January 2023.

Mara Bolis

Mara Bolis is a practitioner and public voice on women, work and generative AI, bringing 20 years of experience leading women's economic empowerment…

Serena Booth

Serena Booth is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Brown University.

Beatriz Botero Arcila

Beatriz is an expert in AI and data governance, with a current focus on AI liability and the law and policy of AI and economic development.

Ibtissam Bouachrine

Ibtissam Bouachrine is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Professor at Smith…

Margaret Bourdeaux

Margaret Bourdeaux, MD, MPH, conducts research and field work focused on health systems and institutions in conflict affected states

Anu Bradford

Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organizations at Columbia Law School.

J.B. Branch

Joshua “J.B.” Branch is the Director of Federal AI Governance and Technology Policy at Public Citizen, where he leads advocacy on artificial…

Sam Brasil

Samuel Brasil is a professor in the LL.M. program in Legal Theory at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and a former Chief Justice of the Espirito…

Nicole Brennan

Nicole Brennan joins the Applied Social Media Lab as a Senior UX Designer. She is a Senior Product Designer and Board-Certified Cognitive…

Lauren Bridges

Lauren Bridges is an Assistant Professor of media studies, faculty co-lead of the Digital Technology and Democracy Lab, and faculty affiliate of…

Julie Brill

Julie Brill advises organizations, policymakers, and thought leaders seeking to align innovation and AI adoption while facing an evolution in…

Cruz Brito

Cruz Brito is the Operations Administrator, Institutes.

Ben Brooks

Ben is Head of Public Policy at Black Forest Labs, a developer of frontier AI models for visual generation and action prediction, including the most…

Lionel Brossi

Lionel Brossi is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Communication and Image at the University of Chile and Director of the Fractal AI Lab (Lab…

Merve Cerit Burgoon

Merve Cerit is a computer scientist and engineer, and a PhD candidate at Stanford University, whose research sits at the intersection of digital…

Lindsey Cameron

Lindsey D. Cameron is an assistant professor of management and the Dorinda and Mark Winkelman Distinguished Faculty Scholar at the Wharton School,…

Danielle (Davis) Canty, Esq.

Danielle (Davis) Canty is Senior Advisor and Director of Technology Policy Programs at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Her…

Daniel Carpenter

Professor Carpenter graduated from Georgetown University in 1989 with distinction in Honors Government and received his doctorate in political…

Stephen Casper

Cas (Stephen Casper) is a computer scientist and an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Faculty Affiliate with the Harvard School…

Ana María Castillo

Ana María Castillo is Vice Dean of Research and Faculty at the School of Communication Sciences at Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC…

Juliana Castro Varón

Juliana Castro Varón draws, writes, makes interactive stories and designs software.

George Chalhoub

George Chalhoub is an Assistant Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at University College London and an Associate Member at the Department of…

Anupam Chander

Anupam Chander is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown.

Vicky Charisi

Dr Vicky Charisi is a Research Scientist at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology working on Human-AI Interaction with a focus on…

Bao Kham Chau

Bao Kham Chau is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law and an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center…

Yiling Chen

Yiling Chen is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Daniel L. Chen

Daniel L. Chen is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, 2025-2026 Emma and Carroll Roush National Fellow…

Inyoung Cheong

Inyoung Cheong studies legal and technical governance for responsible AI ecosystem.

Jiaee Cheong

Jiaee Cheong is a research scientist whose work focuses on advancing trustworthy, safe, and reliable human-centred AI.

Kasia Chmielinski

Kasia Chmielinski (they/them) is a Senior Advisor on Data & AI at the United Nations and the Executive Director of the Data Nutrition Project, an…

Jon Choi

Jonathan H. Choi is the James Carr Professor of Law at WashU Law, specializing in law and artificial intelligence, tax law, and statutory…

Tracy Chou

Tracy Chou is a member of technical staff at Anthropic.

Rumman Chowdhury

Rumman Chowdhury, PhD, is a globally recognized expert in responsible AI, governance, and algorithmic accountability.

Wendy Chun

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media in the School of Communication and Director of the Digital…

Myojung Chung

Myojung Chung is an assistant professor of journalism and media innovation at Northeastern University.

David Clark

David Clark is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Meredith Clark

Meredith D. Clark, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) is an associate professor of race and political communication in the School of Journalism & Media at the…

Gabriella Coleman

Gabriella (Biella) Coleman is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University, is a…

A. Feder Cooper

A. Feder Cooper is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, where I research a variety of topics in reliable, scalable machine…

Sandra Cortesi

Sandra Cortesi is the Director of the Youth and Media Lab.

Francisco Marmolejo Cossío

Francisco Marmolejo Cossío is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Boston College.

Sasha Costanza-Chock

Sasha Costanza-Chock (she/they/ella/elle) is a researcher and designer who works to support community-led processes that build shared power,…

Nick Couldry

Nick Couldry is the author or editor of 18 books, including most recently The Space of the World: Can Human Solidarity Survive Social Media and What…

Jim Cowie

Jim Cowie is a serial entrepreneur and data scientist, and has been studying Internet measurement and data storytelling for more than 20 years. His…

David Craig

USC Annenberg Associate Professor David Craig has been conducting research about the structural and material conditions that distinguish global,…

Jack Cushman

Jack Cushman is the director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, a software and design lab at the Harvard Law School Library bringing library…

Primavera De Filippi

Primavera De Filippi is a Research Director at the National Center of Scientific Research in Paris, and Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center…

Juan Carlos De Martin

Juan Carlos De Martin is full professor of computer engineering at the Politecnico of Turin (Italy).

Sebastian Diaz

Sebastian Diaz is the Berkman Klein Center's Director of Technology. He guides the Berkman Klein Center's IT enterprise through a landscape of ever…

Tomás Dodds

Tomás Dodds is the director of the Public Tech Media Lab and an Assistant Professor in Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of…

Judith Donath

Judith Donath is a writer, designer and artist whose work focuses on the co-evolution of technology and society.

Finale Doshi-Velez

Finale Doshi-Velez is a Herchel Smith Professor in Computer Science at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She…

Evelyn Douek

Evelyn Douek is an Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.

Katy Doyle

Katy Doyle is the Managing Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, serving as chief operating and administrative officer for the…

Elizabeth Dubois

Dr. Elizabeth Dubois (PhD, University of Oxford) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and University Research Chair in…

Brenda Dvoskin

Brenda Dvoskin writes and teaches at the intersection of sexuality and technology.

Prof. Upol Ehsan

Prof. Upol Ehsan makes AI systems responsible and explainable so that people who aren't at the table don't end up on the menu.

Ben Eidelson

Benjamin Eidelson is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.

Shelby El Otmani

Shelby’s interest in the Berkman Klein Center’s work flourished after completing the center’s CopyrightX course in 2019. She has since been…

Niva Elkin-Koren

Niva Elkin-Koren is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, the academic director…

Greg M. Epstein

Greg M. Epstein serves as the humanist chaplain at Harvard University and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His first book,…

Samson Esayas

Dr. Samson Esayas is a Professor at the Norwegian Research Centre for Computers and Law, University of Oslo, and also holds a 20% position at BI…

Rob Eschmann

Rob Eschmann is a scholar and filmmaker interrogating the effects of racism and the choices we can make to resist it.

Aymar Jean Escoffery

Dr. Aymar Jean "AJ" Escoffery (fka Aymar Jean Christian) is the Margaret Walker Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and…

Armando Guio Español

Dr. Armando Guio Español is a scholar and practitioner working at the intersection of law, technology, and public policy, with a particular focus on…

Mark Esposito

Dr. Mark Esposito is Professor of Tech Policy at Northeastern University and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He is Faculty Associate at…

Jeannette Estruth

Jeannette Estruth is an Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University and a Faculty Associate at the Harvard Berkman- Klein Center for…

Jabari Evans

Jabari M. Evans is an Assistant Professor of Race and Media at the University of South Carolina’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications and a…

Nancy Fairbank

Nancy Fairbank is the Head of Operations at AfterQuery, an applied research lab in San Francisco that curates data solutions for frontier AI model…

Paul Fehlinger

Paul Fehlinger is a global leader at the intersection of AI investment, entrepreneurship and policy.

Catherine Feldman

Catherine Feldman is the Executive Director and Founder of the Digital Trust Council where she works to ensure AI innovation also promotes human…

Mailyn Fidler

Professor Fidler’s scholarship lies at the intersection of power and technology, critiquing the unaccountable ways that technology expands the power…

Christian Fieseler

Christian, a faculty associate, is professor of communication management at BI Norwegian Business School, a director of the Nordic Centre for…

Chris Finck

Chris Finck is a Systems Admin and Geek member working to keep Berkman Klein Center servers and technology projects in check.

Brigitte Fink

Brigitte is a geopolitical and misinformation researcher who focuses on the distribution and impact of misinformation across social media platforms…

William Fisher

William Fisher is a Berkman Klein Center Director. He is the WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Harvard Law School and he…

Jessica Fjeld

Jessica Fjeld is the Managing Director of the De|Center and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center.

Camille François

Dr. Camille François is the founder and president of ROOST — a technology nonprofit building a commons of open source safety tools — and an Assistant…

Rudy Fraser

Rudy Fraser is founder & CEO of Blacksky Algorithms

Diana Freed

Diana Freed is an Assistant Professor of Computer and Data Science at Brown University.

Nathan Freitas

Nathan is the founder and director of Guardian Project, an award-winning, open-source, mobile security collaborative with millions of users and…

Jenny Fu

Jenny Fu is a human-computer interaction researcher who studies the AI-mediated self.

Mayo Fuster Morell

Mayo Fuster Morell is faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society in the Harvard University, where she has collaborated…

Margaret Gagnon

Margaret is a passionate finance leader with over 20 years of experience in building and scaling tech companies. 

Mariel García Montes

Mariel García-Montes is a technology capacity builder and researcher from Mexico

Toni Gardner

Toni Gardner is the Director of Strategic Partnerships.

Urs Gasser

Dr. Urs Gasser is Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and Innovative Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he serves as…

Akriti Gaur

Akriti Gaur is a constitutional lawyer and technology policy advisor working on AI, democracy, and digital governance.

Marissa Gerchick

Marissa Gerchick is a data scientist and researcher focused on the intersection of technology and civil rights, especially related to machine…

Noah Giansiracusa

Noah Giansiracusa is a math professor at Bentley University (a business school near Boston) and a faculty associate at Harvard, with a PhD in…

Eric Gilbert

Eric Gilbert is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Prior to Michigan, he was on the faculty in the College of…

Sharad Goel

Sharad Goel is a Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Matt Goerzen

Matt Goerzen is a PhD candidate studying the History of Science at Harvard University.

Valerie Gomez

Valerie Gomez (she/hers) is a Program Manager engaged with the Educational Initiatives at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard…

Greg Gondwe

Gregory Gondwe is a scholar of journalism, technology, and society. He is Assistant Professor of Journalism and Emerging Media Technologies at…

Yajaira Gonzalez

Yajaira Gonzalez is a Product Leader at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), where she leads Responsible AI and Product…

Kishonna Gray

Dr. Kishonna L. Gray is a Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan.

Mary L. Gray

Mary L. Gray is Principal Investigator of Project Resolve and founder of The Resolve Institute, an independent, focused research organization…

Ben Green

Ben Green is an Assistant Professor of Information and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Ben holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from…

Ben Grosser

Ben Grosser investigates how the designs of platform interfaces—from social media to AI chatbots—shape human behavior, desire, and culture.

Armando Guio Español

Armando Guio Español is a lawyer, and graduated from Universidad de los Andes (Bogota, Colombia) in 2014 with an Honours Degree. He holds a Masters…

Shira Gur-Arieh

Shira Gur-Arieh is an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School whose research focuses on law and artificial intelligence.

Isabel Hahn

Isabel Hahn is interested in exploring how privacy-preserving principles can underpin governance frameworks for agentic AI.

Jeff Hall

Jeffrey A. Hall is the Department Chair and Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Kansas.

Houman Harouni

Houman Harouni is a practice-based theorist of culture and education.

Woodrow Hartzog

Woodrow Hartzog is the Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law.

Samer Hassan

Samer Hassan (he/they) is a Spanish/Lebanese activist and researcher, currently Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center, and Associate…

Jérôme Hergueux

Jerome is an assistant research professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), a research affiliate at the Center for Law…

Jennifer Hickey

Jennifer Hickey comes to ASML with a passion for public interest technology and years of experience as a software engineer, civil rights attorney,…

Mako Hill

Benjamin Mako Hill is a social scientist and technologist.

Sameer Hinduja

Dr. Sameer Hinduja is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida Atlantic University, Co-Director of the Cyberbullying…

Daniel Ho

Daniel E. Ho is the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Professor of Computer Science (by…

David Hornik

David Hornik is Founding Partner at Lobby Capital, a Silicon Valley based venture capital firm. He is also a educator, art collector, Broadway…

Nien-hê Hsieh

Professor Hsieh is Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration and for 2021-2022, Acting Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at…

Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang

Angel Hsing-Chi Hwang (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at University of Southern California and a human-AI interaction (HAII) researcher.

Seiji Isotani

Seiji Isotani is the Faculty Director of the M.S.Ed. program in Artificial Intelligence and Learning Analytics at the University of Pennsylvania…

Malavika Jayaram

Malavika is the Executive Director of BKC spinoff, the Digital Asia Hub, an independent, non-profit internet and society research think tank based…

Dariusz Jemielniak

Dariusz Jmielniak is a Wikipedian, Full Professor of Management at Kozminski University, and an entrepreneur.

Bulelani Jili

Dr. Bulelani Jili is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he is part of the African…

Leslie John

Leslie John is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Currently, she teaches on the topics of Negotiation, Marketing and…

Chelsea Johnson

Chelsea Baltierra Johnson is a Principal Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab. An experienced software engineer and social impact organizer,…

Josh Joseph

Josh Joseph is Berkman Klein’s Chief AI Scientist, the first role of its kind at BKC.

Jonas Kaiser

Jonas Kaiser is a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and Associate Professor at Suffolk University.

DZ Kalman

DZ Kalman works at the intersection of religion and technology, studying how religious traditions can provide moral framework for fast-moving…

Rachel Kalmar

Rachel Kalmar is a data scientist, community organizer, and world record holder for number of wearable sensors worn continuously.

Margot Kaminski

Margot Kaminski is the Moses Lasky Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School and the Director of the Privacy Initiative at Silicon…

Sayash Kapoor

Sayash Kapoor is a Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellow in the University Center for Human Values and a computer science Ph.D. candidate at…

Holden Karnofsky

Holden Karnofsky is a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, where he focuses on the design of the company's Responsible Scaling Policy and other…

Ryan Y. Kellett

Ryan Y. Kellett is a co-founder of the Independent Journalism Atlas, a vetted directory of independent creator-journalists, and an ethical AI…

Yannis Kemel

Yannis is an Emerging Technologies Governance Expert specializing in AI and cybersecurity governance, and serves as an Affiliated Researcher at the…

Mehtab Khan

Mehtab Khan is an Assistant Professor of Law at Cleveland State University College of Law, where I teach Intellectual Property, AI Law, and Law &…

SJ Klein

Samuel Klein is an engineer and archivist, currently working on automating knowledge synthesis and review.

Kate Klonick

Kate Klonick is an Associate Professor at St. John's University Law School, a Senior Editor at Lawfare, and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings…

Jenny Korn

Jenny Korn is a feminist activist of color for social justice and a scholar of race and gender in mass media, online communication, and artificial…

Vasilis Kostakis

Vasilis Kostakis is a Professor of Technology Governance and Sustainability at TalTech, Estonia, and a Faculty Associate at Harvard University's…

Vasudha Kowtha

Vasudha Kowtha is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, exploring the intersections of audio-based sensing, surveillance, privacy and liability…

Vivek Krishnamurthy

Vivek Krishnamurthy is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic (TLPC) at the University…

Gretchen Krueger

Gretchen is a volunteer at Evitable and an independent researcher affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center.

Ezekiel Kwetchi Takam

Ezekiel Kwetchi Takam is a PhD researcher at the University of Geneva and a 2024-2025 Berkman Klein Fellow at Harvard University.

Jason Kwon

Jason Kwon works on a variety of issues at OpenAI related to AI policy, law, geopolitics and platform governance.

Rebekah Larsen

Rebekah Larsen am an early career media sociologist with a PhD from Cambridge University. Broadly, my work uncovers and analyses understudied media…

Crystal Lee

Crystal Lee is an Assistant Professor in Computational Media and Design at MIT, with a joint appointment in the Schwarzman College of Computing and…

Rosemary Leith

Rosemary is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, joining the Internet Robustness team, building awareness and facilitating global …

Alberto Leon

Alberto Leon is a senior software engineer doing research at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), focused on…

Greg Leppert

Greg Leppert is the Chief Technologist of the Berkman Klein Center. He is also the Executive Director of the Institutional Data Initiative, a…

Larry Lessig

Larry Lessig works on law and technology.

Maroussia Lévesque

Maroussia researches AI governance.

Harry Lewis

Harry Lewis (AB’68, PhD’74) is Gordon McKay Research Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and…

Kevin Liao

Kevin’s research brings together legal, technical, and economic perspectives to study intellectual property, data privacy, and the governance of…

Ernest Lim

Ernest Lim is the Chan Sek Keong Professor of Private Law and a Vice Dean at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS), where he…

Yuping Lin

Yuping Lin is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).

Baihan Lin

Baihan Lin is a tenure-track professor of AI, psychiatry, and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he directs the Bytes…

Ava Liu

Ava Liu is the Academic Fellow In Law, Technology and Labor, hosted by the Center for Labor and A Just Economy at Harvard Law School and affiliate at…

Andres Lombana-Bermudez

Andres Lombana-Bermudez is a researcher, designer, and educator working at the intersection of digital technologies, citizenship, and media…

Taylor Lowe

Taylor Lowe is an architectural designer and a cultural anthropologist whose work studies how political imaginaries materialize through design…

Asaf Lubin

Dr. Asaf Lubin is a Professor at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and an Affiliated Faculty at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and…

Nathaniel Lubin

Nathaniel Lubin is a technologist focused on developing novel approaches to improving online discourse, building measurement tools, and combating…

amac Macgillivray

Alexander “amac” Macgillivray was Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy United States Chief Technology Officer in the Biden…

Caio Vieira Machado

Caio Vieira Machado is a Brazilian lawyer and social scientist working on AI governance, algorithmic fairness, platform regulation, and scientific…

Rebecca MacKinnon

Rebecca MacKinnon is a writer, researcher, and advocate for human rights in digital environments.

Colin Maclay

Colin Maclay specializes in understanding and creating the conditions for innovation and change, which often means collaboratively and creatively…

Faith Majekolagbe

Dr. Faith Majekolagbe is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Alberta.

David Malan

David J. Malan is Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences…

Meg Marco

Meg was the Senior Director of the Applied Social Media Lab, focusing on building public interest technology that helps make information available…

Matt Marino

Matt is a Senior UX Designer at the Applied Social Media Lab, working on a variety of projects that serve the public good. He has over a decade…

Florian Martin-Bariteau

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau is a Faculty Associate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and the University…

Kalie Mayberry

Kalie Mayberry serves as the Senior Program Manager for the Applied Social Media Lab.

Kai McDougall

I started my Harvard journey 8 years ago as a staff assistant at HMS in the Health Care Policy Department for 5 years before moving over to HSPH in…

Chelsea McGovern

Chelsea joined BKC in August 2021. She supports projects for the Center's leadership team, the RSM visiting scholars program, and helps manage BKC's…

Sean McGregor

Sean McGregor is a machine learning safety researcher and cofounder of AVERI, whose efforts have included launching the AI Incident Database,…

Andrew McLaughlin

Andrew McLaughlin is Chief Operating Officer at SandboxAQ.

Jasmine McNealy

Jasmine McNealy is an attorney, critical public interest technologist, and social scientist who studies emerging media & technology with a view…

James Mickens

James Mickens is a Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. His research focuses on the performance, security, and…

Stefania Milan

Stefania Milan works at the intersection of political participation, technology, and governance, with focus on infrastructure and political agency.

Brendan Miller

Brendan A. Miller was a Principal Engineer with the Applied Social Media Laboratory. He researches and develops innovative protocols, architectures…

Amelia Miller

Amelia Miller is a researcher, designer, and writer focused on how technology shapes human connection. She recently earned her MSc from the…

Gilad Mills

Gilad holds an LL.B. and a B.A. in Law and Economics from Tel Aviv University, and an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Martha Minow

Martha Minow has taught at Harvard Law School since 1981, where her courses include civil procedure, constitutional law, family law, international…

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell is a researcher focused on machine learning (ML) and ethics-informed AI development in tech.

Jay Mollica

Jay Mollica transforms how global cultural institutions connect with audiences through technology.

Andras Molnar

Andras Molnar is an Affiliate at Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and serves as Senior Digital Policy Manager &…

Petra Molnar

Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing on the impacts of migration technologies on people crossing borders.

Sarah Moon

Sarah is the Outreach Coordinator at the Applied Social Media Lab, where she develops partnerships and builds collaborative networks to advance…

Dylan Moses

Dylan Moses is a law clerk specializing at the intersection of emerging technologies and legal frameworks surrounding online speech, privacy,…

José M. Muñoz

José M. Muñoz is the Founding Director of the International Neurotechnology Governance Observatory (INEGOV) at the International Center for…

Victor Muñoz

Víctor Muñoz is an industrial engineer, MBA, entrepreneur, and expert in digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and public policy.

Jon Murley

Jon Murley is the Center’s Administrative Director

Brian Michael Murphy

Brian Michael Murphy is a media archaeologist and writer who work cuts across disciplines and genres.

Backtosch Mustafa

Backtosch Mustafa, MD, MPH, is a physician and public health expert who works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethics, and health…

Tomo Nagashima

Tomo Nagashima is a learning scientist and Human-Computer Interaction researcher who works closely with education stakeholders (e.g., teachers,…

Arvind Narayanan

Arvind Narayanan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University and the director of the Center for Information Technology Policy.

David Nemer

David Nemer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, and an Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Anthropology and in the…

Charles Nesson

Charles R. Nesson is the William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and…

Russell Newman

Dr. Russell Newman is an Associate Professor in Digital Media and Culture at Emerson College’s Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and…

Sarah Newman

Sarah Newman is a researcher, educator, and creative leader working at the intersection of AI, ethics, and education.

Aileen Nielsen

Aileen Nielsen is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard Law School, where she teaches privacy law and torts.

Nick Nugent

Nick Nugent is an assistant professor of law at the University of Tennessee, where he specializes in cybersecurity, AI, computer crime, internet law,…

Ruth L. Okediji

Ruth L. Okediji is a renowned scholar in international intellectual property (IP) law and a foremost authority on the role of intellectual property…

Ngozi Okidegbe

Ngozi Okidegbe is a Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Associate Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Computing & Data…

David Opderbeck

David W. Opderbeck is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology and Institute for Privacy Protection at…

Gbemisola Osadua

International lawyer and researcher on digital trade, dispute resolution, global governance of Artificial Intelligence and emerging technologies, and…

Julie Owono

Julie Owono is the Executive Director of Internet Sans Frontieres, and the founder of the Content Policy & Society Lab, an organization first…

Yong Jin Park

Yong Jin Park is a Professor at the School of Communications at Howard University.

Alex Pascal

Alex Pascal is the Executive Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

Desmond Patton

Desmond Upton Patton is the thirty-first Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor and the Waldo E. Johnson Jr. Professor of Communication.

Jonnie Penn

Dr. Jonnie Penn, FRSA, is an educator, broadcaster, and public speaker who theorizes the implications of information technologies on business and…

Jon Penney

Jon is a legal scholar and social scientist based at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in Toronto, where he is an Associate Professor and…

Gordon Pennycook

Gordon Pennycook is the Dorothy and Ariz Mehta Faculty Leadership Fellow and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Cornell…

Anat Perry

Anat Perry is an associate professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she directs the Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.

Najarian Peters

Najarian R. Peters is a scholar and law professor who researches areas of privacy, torts, education, artificial intelligence (AI) ethics, and…

Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin

Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin (she/her) is a critical media and technology scholar whose academic research and community-based work is invested in…

Kathy Pham

Kathy Pham is a computer scientist, product leader, and founder who has held roles in product management, software engineering, data science, people…

Leah Plunkett

Leah Plunkett is the inaugural Executive Director of Harvard Law School Online and Associate Dean of Learning Experience and Innovation (LXI) at…

Trisha Prabhu

At the Berkman Klein Center, Trisha Prabhu works alongside Professor Jonathan Zittrain to explore the viability of information fiduciaries, described…

Dasha Pruss

Dasha Pruss is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center, where…

Sarah Radway

Sarah is a computer science PhD candidate at Harvard, advised by Prof. James Mickens.

Dave Rand

David Rand is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor and Professor of Information Science, Marketing, and Psychology at Cornell University.

Pariroo Rattan

Pariroo Rattan is a Weinberg College Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University's Science in Human Culture Program and Department of Sociology.

Alan Raul

Alan Raul is a Lecturer at Harvard Law School, Board Chair and President of the Society for the Rule of Law, and Board Chair and President of the…

Maia José Ravalli

Maria José (Maia) Ravalli is an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Elissa M. Redmiles

Dr. Elissa M. Redmiles is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. Dr. Redmiles uses…

Ben Reininga

Ben Reininga is Global Vice President of Audio, Video and Social at Politico, leading teams in the U.S. and Europe to expand the organization’s…

Ben Reis

Prof. Ben Reis is the Director of the Predictive Medicine Group at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital.

Paul Resnick

Paul Resnick is the Michael D. Cohen Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Director of the Center for Social…

Manon Revel

Manon Revel is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind.

Paola Ricaurte

Paola Ricaurte is a full professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard…

Neil Richards

Neil Richards holds the Koch Distinguished Professorship at Washington University School of Law, where he co-directs the Cordell Institute for Policy…

Johnny Richardson

Johnny is a Senior Software Engineer at the Applied Social Media Lab working on making social media discourse safer and more democratic while…

Allissa Richardson

Allissa V. Richardson researches how African Americans use mobile and social media to produce innovative forms of journalism — especially in times of…

James Riley

Dr. James Riley is an economic sociologist.

Nagla Rizk

Nagla Rizk is Professor of Economics and Founding Director of the Access to Knowledge for Development Center (A2K4D) and the Middle East and North…

Zoe Robert

Zoe is a software engineer, computer science educator, and creative technologist. She is particularly interested in how the collection, movement, and…

Isabella Roden

Isabella is the Director of Communications and Engagement for the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, where she focuses on expanding BKC…

César Rodríguez-Garavito

César Rodríguez-Garavito is an Earth rights scholar, field lawyer, and founding director of the MOTH (More-Than-Human Life) Program at New York…

Yoel Roth

Yoel Roth is a trust and safety practitioner and researcher.

Deb Roy

Deb Roy is professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT where he directs the MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC).

Tom Rubin

Tom Rubin is currently chief of intellectual property and content at OpenAI, where his responsibilities include products, partnerships, and global…

Tim G. J. Rudner

Tim G. J. Rudner is an Assistant Professor of Statistical Sciences (Status-Only) at the University of Toronto, a Canada CIFAR AI Chair and Faculty…

Nathan Sanders

Nathan Sanders is a data scientist focused on creating open technology to help vulnerable communities and all stakeholders participate in the…

Christian Sandvig

Christian Sandvig is the Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC) and Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of…

Holli Sargeant

Dr. Holli Sargeant is a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Cambridge, specialising in the intersection of law and AI.

Roslyn Satchel

Roslyn M. Satchel is a womanist scholar-activist in the Pan-African Studies tradition who examines human rights and civic engagement at the…

Jeffrey Schnapp

Jeffrey is the founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and one of the faculty co-directors of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and…

Bruce Schneier

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist.

Trebor Scholz

R. Trebor Scholz is a researcher, author, and advocate for fair and sustainable digital labor practices. He is a professor and the founding director…

Sarah Schwettmann

Sarah Schwettmann is a neuroscientist and machine learning researcher based at MIT.

Nick Seaver

Nick Seaver is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, where he also directs the program in Science, Technology & Society.

Elaine Sedenberg

Elaine Sedenberg serves on a small strategy team for the President of Global Affairs at Meta, and covers issues across Policy, Communications, and…

Andrew Selbst

Andrew Selbst is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.

Margo I. Seltzer

Margo I. Seltzer is the Cheriton Family Chair in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia

Nishant Shah

Nishant Shah Professor of Global Media & Culture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Director of the Digital Narratives Studio.

Anand Shah

Anand Shah is a fourth-year PhD candidate at MIT Sloan focused on studying the economics of AI, advised by Parag Pathak, John Horton, and David…

Nadiyah Shaheed

Nadiyah Shaheed is eager to assist in her role as Center Coordinator in advancing Berkman Klein Center's mission of "advancing public interest at the…

Aaron Shaw

Aaron Shaw is Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology (by courtesy) at Northwestern University; Co-Founder of the Community Data Science…

Stuart Shieber

Stuart Shieber is the James O. Welch, Jr. and Virginia B. Welch Professor of Computer Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at…

Samantha Shireman

Samantha Shireman is a passionate pragmatist who develops technology products that break through the digital walls that divide people into polarized…

Brandon Silverman

Brandon is an expert on social media data access & transparency and he's collaborating with the Center to help build more long-term infrastructure…

Ram Shankar Siva Kumar

Ram Shankar Siva Kumar is a Data Cowboy working on the intersection of machine learning and security.

Erin Smith

Erin Smith is a Boston-based journalist who most recently was a senior engagement editor at Politico.

Jeffrey Snover

Jeffrey Snover is a systems philosopher and retired Technical Fellow from Microsoft and Google who invented PowerShell bridging deep cultural and…

Sarah Sobieraj

Sarah Sobieraj is Professor of Sociology at Tufts University with expertise in US political culture, extreme incivility, digital abuse and harassment…

Alicia Solow-Niederman

Alicia Solow-Niederman’s scholarship sits at the intersection of law and technology.

Hayley Song

Hae Jin (Hayley) Song is a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and an incoming Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Fields…

Swati Srivastava

Swati Srivastava is Associate Professor of Government & Politics and Core Faculty in the AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM) at the…

Kerrick Staley

Kerrick's research at OpenAI aims to understand how frontier AI agents can be monitored and controlled to prevent misaligned and malicious behavior…

Allison Stanger

Allison Stanger is Middlebury Distinguished Endowed Professor; Co-Director (with Danielle Allen),

Stefanie Stantcheva

Stefanie Stantcheva is the Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard and founder of the Social Economics Lab.

Abbey Stemler

Abbey Stemler is an Associate Professor and Weimer Faculty Fellow in the Department of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University's Kelley School…

Jennifer Strong

Jennifer Strong’s coverage of AI and emerging tech has been recognized by awards juries more than thirty times.

Christopher Stubbs

Christopher Stubbs is an experimental physicist working at the interface between particle physics, cosmology and gravitation.

Peter Suber

Peter Suber works for the growth of open access to research, within Harvard and beyond.

Madhavi Sunder

Madhavi Sunder, Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property Law is a widely published and influential scholar of intellectual property law, law…

Cass Sunstein

Cass R. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral…

Harini Suresh

Harini Suresh is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Brown University. Her work explores approaches to AI development and governance that…

Sam Suri

Sam Suri is a privacy and security researcher, focused on protecting the privacy of our everyday movements and actions, the security of our devices,…

Rebecca Tabasky

Rebecca Tabasky is honored to be part of the Berkman Klein Center core team as the Director of Community

Zahra Takhshid

Zahra Takhshid is an Associate Professor of Law at Wayne State Law School.

Josh Tan

Joshua Tan is CTO at Current AI.

Amanda Third

Professor Amanda Third (PhD) is Professorial Research Fellow in the Institute for Culture & Society, and Co-Director of the Young and Resilient…

Bridget Todd

Bridget Todd is an award-winning creator, host, producer, and author who crafts compelling digital content and podcasts at the intersection of…

Nora Trapp

Nora Trapp is an engineer and applied cryptographer at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), working at the…

Zeynep Tufekci

Zeynep Tufekci is an academic and writer who focuses on big social challenges that defy disciplinary boundaries and simple answers

Rebecca Tushnet

Rebecca Tushnet is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Law School. Her work currently focuses on copyright, trademark, and…

Sahana Udupa

Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany, Principal Investigator of the…

Salil Vadhan

Salil Vadhan is the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied…

Rory Van Loo

Rory Van Loo's research focuses on how technological, market, and social shifts invite a rethinking of the regulatory framework for consumer-facing…

Matthew Victor

Matthew Victor is a technology and business attorney at Bernstein Shur in Portland, Maine, where his practice focuses on emerging technology, data…

Fernanda Viégas

Fernanda Viégas is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, and Sally Starling Seaver Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced…

Salomé Viljoen

Salomé is an Assistant Professor of Law at Michigan Law School, where she teaches and writes about contracts, privacy, commercial surveillance and…

Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger

Kerstin Noëlle Vokinger is a Professor of Law and Medicine at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland).

Fred von Lohmann

Fred von Lohmann is a copyright lawyer and strategic adviser at OpenAI, where he previously served as Deputy General Counsel for Copyright.

Sandra Wachter

Prof. Dr. Sandra Wachter is Professor of Technology and Regulation at the University of Oxford at the Oxford Internet Institute.

j. Siguru Wahutu

j. Siguru Wahutu is Assistant Professor of Sociology and African Studies at Yale University, where he is also a Fellow of the MacMillan Center for…

Joe Walther

Joe Walther’s current research examines how social interactions among online hate posters increase its perpetration.

Anne Washington

Anne L. Washington, PhD is a scholar of public interest technology at Duke University. She holds the Rothermere Associate Professor chair in…

Martin Wattenberg

I am a professor at Harvard, where I co-lead the Insight + Interaction Lab with long-time collaborator Fernanda Viégas. I'm also a part-time member…

Jess Weaver

Jess Weaver is a nonprofit communicator, evaluator, and qualitative UX researcher with a focus on civic technology.

Moira Weigel

Moira Weigel writes and teaches about the history, theory, and social life of media and communication technologies, from the early nineteenth century…

David Weinberger

David Weinberger, Ph.D. writes about the effect of technology — especially AI and the Internet — on our ideas about ourselves, our world, and…

Jordi Weinstock

Jordi Weinstock is a Senior Advisor to Harvard’s Institute for Rebooting Social Media. He has served as a Lecturer at Harvard Law School in Internet …

Samantha Weinstock

Samantha Weinstock is the Executive Director of the United States - Japan Innovation Institute, a US nonprofit, and a visiting researcher and…

Johanna Wild

Johanna Wild is an open source researcher at the intersection of investigative journalism and public interest technology. She is the Innovation…

David Wilkins

Faculty Associate

Ellen Willemin

Ellen Willemin is the Program Manager for Educational Initiatives at the Berkman Klein Center.

Apryl Williams

Apryl Williams is a jointly appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Media and the Digital Studies Institute at the…

Eraldine Williams-Shakespeare

Dr. Eraldine Williams-Shakespeare is an educator and certified instructional designer and evaluator with over 25 years of experience at the tertiary…

David Willner

Dave Willner is a Co-Founder at Zentropi, the company behind CoPE, a best-in-class small language model capable of accurate and steerable content…

Christo Wilson

Christo Wilson is a Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.

Alexandra Wood

Alexandra Wood is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Society in the Department of Political Science at Purdue…

Caroline Woolard

Caroline Woolard is Executive Director and CEO of Pollinator.coop, a network, annual program, and fund for alumni of over 400 fellowships…

Mark Wu

Mark Wu is a Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His work focuses on international trade and international intellectual property…

Qunfang Wu

Qunfang Wu is a technological activist researcher committed to advancing more inclusive and socially responsible forms of human-AI collaboration.

Angela Xiao Wu

Angela Xiao Wu's research sits at the intersection of media and communication studies and science and technology studies (STS), with broader…

Maria Xynou

Maria Xynou is a co-founder and director of the Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a nonprofit organization that provides free software…

Crystal Yang

Crystal S. Yang is the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Juncheng "Tony" Yang

Juncheng “Tony” Yang is an Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong.

Amanda Yarnell

Amanda (she/her) is the senior director of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Center for Health Communication and a lecturer in its…

Tom Zick

Tom Zick is an AI researcher and attorney, currently serving as Director of Responsible AI at Charles Schwab and as an Affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman…

Jonathan Zittrain

Jonathan Zittrain is the George Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Professor of…

Jonathan Zong

Jonathan Zong is an Assistant Professor of Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he leads the Data & Design Group.

Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman is associate professor of public policy, information and communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and director of…

Friday

There’s a new boss in town: Friday is the Special Assistant to the Director of Community.