AI experts
From researchers developing artificial intelligence tools to help fight climate change to scholars studying the ethics of AI, UC Berkeley is home to numerous experts on the subject. Below are some of Berkeley’s top AI scholars who can provide comments to members of the media.
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Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences; Director, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute
AI and self-driving cars, mixed-autonomy traffic, human-robot interaction. UC Berkeley News
Lecturer, School of Information
AI in the arts and humanities, AI’s effect on creative writing. Scientific American, Financial Times, New Books Network
Director, UC Berkeley Labor Center's Technology and Work Program
Labor market research, AI and new technology’s effect on low-wage work, the gig economy. UC Berkeley Labor Center,The Guardian, CalMatters
Professor of law; Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
AI law and governance, equity in AI, the economics of AI. Forbes
Executive director, CITRIS and the Banato Institute
AI bias, ethics and governance, AI in higher education, gender equity in the tech sector and higher ed. UC Berkeley News, San Francisco Standard
Professor of information
AI in image processing, political messaging and deepfakes, algorithms and recommender systems, AI policy and law. UC Berkeley News, The Washington Post, The New York Times
Professor of engineering
AI and robotics in the workplace and at home, automation, use of robots in research. UC Berkeley News,The New York Times, California Magazine, 80,000 Hours podcast
Professor of psychology
Cognitive development and learning in young children, machine learning and AI’s similarities to human cognition. UC Berkeley News, The Wall Street Journal, The Ezra Klein Show
Assistant professor of psychology
AI in psychology, ethics, mechanisms of bias in AI, shifting societal norms and training data. Berkeley Talks, Psychology Today, KQED
Assistant professor of psychology
AI’s bias and misinformation problem, concepts of belief and trust, child development and learning. UC Berkeley News
Director, CITRIS Policy Lab; Associate research professor, Goldman School of Public Policy
Technology policy, AI governance, human rights, social media regulation. UC Berkeley News, Tech Crunch, NPR
Associate professor of health policy and management
Intersection of machine learning and health, AI and algorithms in health care. UC Berkeley News, The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, KJZZ, Freakonomics
Associate professor of education
AI in education, recommender systems, AI tutoring, adaptive learning, higher education. UC Berkeley News, KQED, Inside Higher Ed
Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences
Dangers of AI, AI in the military, future of AI and humanity. UC Berkeley News, The New York Times, CNN
Associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Transatlantic literature, Spanish, Spain, Latin America, digital literature, digital humanities, new media, machine learning and translation. Berkeley Talks
Professor of civil and environmental engineering
Self-driving cars, AI’s effect on transportation. UC Berkeley News, Berkeleyside
Senior scientist, UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI
Effects of AI-driven media/social media on polarization and political conflict. UC Berkeley News
Professor of chemistry
AI in chemistry, how AI in chemistry address climate change. Berkeley CDSS, TIME
Assistant professor of computational precision health, statistics, electrical engineering and computer sciences
AI in medicine, specifically AI for cancer research. KQED Forum
Associate professor of French and of film and media
Humanistic approaches to AI, cultural representations and fantasies/fears about AI in films and science fiction. UC Berkeley News
