Responsibility in AI Systems and Experiences
At RAISE, we envision a future where AI systems are developed and used strongly aligned with human ethics and values. These systems will solve complex problems and help make decisions. They will provide experiences for the users that not only augment and enhance their live, but do so with accountability.
With a wealth of faculty from over a dozen labs across disciplines, RAISE is a leading center for research and education: building, evaluating, and envisioning AI technologies in the area of Responsible AI. Together, we are working to address humanity’s existential challenges such as climate change, access to food, water, and healthcare, as well as reliable and trustworthy information and political landscape, to support an equitable, sustainable, and healthy world.
Upcoming Talks & Events
Guest Speaker
Dr. Ehsan Valavi is a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Sloan’s initiative on the digital economy. Continuing his Ph.D. research, he also studies the scalability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) based solutions and the value of data for digital firms. He received his Ph.D. in Technology and Operations Management from Harvard Business School. He completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications) at the University of Tehran and has a master’s degree in communication systems from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL). He also holds another master’s degree in Decision, Risk, and Operations Management from Columbia Business School.
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His research interest is at the interface of digitization, strategy, and operations management. He is currently studying the growth of digital firms and the challenges they face in various business areas. AT MIT, he mainly focuses on studying emerging blockchain-based technologies.
Guest Speaker
Dr. Rem Koning is the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
His research explores how we can help more entrepreneurs, scientists, and innovators succeed. His work on entrepreneurship and innovation spans industries and regions, from Indian tech ventures to small business owners in Kenya to women’s and mental health startups in the US.
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Building on this work, he is the co-director and co-founder of the Tech for All lab at The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, where he leads a group of interdisciplinary researchers studying how entrepreneurs can accelerate and shift the rate and direction of science, technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit all of humanity.
Guest Speaker
Dr. Do Yoon Kim is an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College.
His research interests include innovation, technology strategy, and digitization. His recent work studies the software and hardware industries, where he analyzes the benefits and challenges of firms innovating alongside free and open source software communities.
Professor Kim received a doctorate in Strategy from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Northwestern University.
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More broadly, he is interested in how knowledge flows across organizational boundaries, and firm strategies/government policies that can facilitate efficient transfers of knowledge.
Publications
Addressing Weak Decision Boundaries in Image Classification by Leveraging Web Search and Generative Models
In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, August 2023. International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, Macau, SAR China, 5941–5949.
Tal August, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg, Marti A. Hearst, Andrew Head, and Kyle Lo. 2023
Human and Technological Infrastructures of Fact-checking
In Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, CSCW2 (November 2022), 1–36.
Prerna Juneja and Tanushree Mitra
Partnerships
UW eScience Institute
UW Data Lab
Information Matters
InfoSeeking
Meet Our Executive Committee
Chirag Shah
Co-Founding Director
Chirag Shah is a Professor in the Information School. He is the Founding Director of InfoSeeking Lab, which focuses on issues related to information seeking, human-computer interaction (HCI), and social media.
Email: chirags@uw.edu
Bill Howe
Co-Founding Director
Bill Howe is an Associate Professor in the iSchool, Adjunct Associate Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, Founding Associate Director of the eScience institute and remains a Senior Data Science Fellow.
Email: billhowe@uw.edu
Tanu Mitra
Co-Founding Director
Tanu Mitra is an Assistant Professor at the Information School, where she leads the Social Computing research group. Her research focuses on studying and building large-scale social computing systems to understand and counter problematic information online.
Email: tmitra@uw.edu