Daniel L. Chen is an Evelyn Green Davis Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), a Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), a Senior Fellow at the Institute For Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), and a Co-Chair of Moral AI at Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI).
Chen received his BA (Summa Cum Laude) and MS from Harvard University in Applied Mathematics and Economics, completed his Economics PhD from MIT, and obtained a JD from Harvard Law School. Chen is the founder of oTree Open Source Research Foundation. oTree is the leading open-source ecosystem for conducting social science experiments in the lab, online, and in the field. He is the Lead Principal Investigator for AMICUS (Analytical Metrics for Informed Courtroom Understanding and Strategy), a team of computer scientists, economists, and lawyers aiming to revolutionize how justice systems' legitimacy and equality are measured, understood, and enhanced. They use cutting-edge research techniques to measure efficiency, quality, and access to justice and impacts on downstream outcomes such as economic growth, conflict and violence, and corruption. Many of his recent papers focus on judicial bias, AI, and court reform.