Vasudha Kowtha is a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, exploring the intersections of audio-based sensing, surveillance, privacy and liability which arise from our co-adaptation with the machine intelligences we choose to share ourselves with.
As a scientist and inventor, she seeks to understand how emerging platforms for artificial intelligence systems which personalize, such as those capable of increasingly sophisticated perception of their human users and their world, surveil our minds and influence our cognitive autonomy. Previously, she contributed to advancing digital sensing in mental health research, and microphone-based ambient/affective sensing algorithms at Apple, and to the characterization and modeling of mammalian cortical learning of new sounds and encoding of speech at single-neuron resolution, as a graduate student at the Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland.