Announcing the 2019 Assembly Cohort
We are thrilled to announce the 2019 cohort for the Assembly program at the Berkman Klein Center and MIT Media Lab. The program, which will start its third iteration on March 11th, 2019, gathers a small cohort of technologists, managers, policymakers, and other professionals to confront emerging problems at the intersection of technology and policy. Assembly is part of our Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, and this year’s cohort will tackle the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence.
Assembly encourages interdisciplinary learning, collaboration across sectors, and the conversion of ideas into tools and actionable policies. The program begins with two weeks of team-building, intensive ideation, and learning. This is followed by twelve weeks of collaborative development, when the teams build projects. The cohort is supported by our staff and an expert advisory board.
Our 2019 cohort is made up of seventeen participants, with experience in the private sector, academia, civil society, and government. You can learn more about them on Assembly’s website. We look forward to learning and creating with them.
Assembly 2019 Cohort
| YEWANDE ALADE Engineering Program Manager at Google AI |
| ANIA CALDERON Executive Director of the Open Data Charter |
| B CAVELLO Program Lead at the Partnership on AI |
| CHRISTINE KAESER-CHEN Software Engineer and Manager at Google Research NYC |
| ELIZABETH DUBOIS Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa |
| WALTER FRICK Deputy Editor, HBR.org, at Harvard Business Review |
| IASON GABRIEL Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind |
| CARL GOVERNALE Operations Officer for Naval Special Warfare Command’s Future Concepts and Innovation Directorate |
| BERNEASE HERMAN Data Scientist and Researcher at the University of Washington eScience Institute |
| PETE KRAFFT Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington |
| ERICH LUDWIG Senior Product Manager at Indigo Ag |
| CHINTAN PARMAR Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
| HONG QU Program Director for Technology at the Shorenstein Center at Harvard Kennedy School |
| FRIEDERIKE SCHÜÜR Director of Machine Learning and Research at CityBlock
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| DAN TABER Product Scientist at Indeed |
| JEFF WEN Data Scientist and Tinkerer |
| JOSEPH WILLIAMS ICT Sector Lead for Washington Governor Jay Inslee |
