Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Jennifer Wortman Vaughan
Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, May 2019
Alma materBoston University
Stanford University
University of Pennsylvania
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsHarvard University
University of California, Los Angeles
Microsoft Research
WebsitePersonal website

Jennifer (Jenn) Wortman Vaughan is an American computer scientist and Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing mainly on building responsible artificial intelligence (AI) systems as part of Microsoft's Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE) initiative. Jennifer is also a co-chair of Microsoft's Aether[1] group on transparency that works on operationalizing responsible AI across Microsoft through making recommendations on responsible AI issues, technologies, processes, and best practices. Jennifer is also active in the research community, she served as the workshops chair and the program co-chair of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPs) in 2019[2] and 2021,[3] respectively. She currently serves as Steering Committee member of the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency. Jennifer is also a senior advisor to Women in Machine Learning[4] (WiML), an initiative co-founded by Jennifer in 2006 aiming to enhance the experience of women in Machine Learning.

  1. ^ "Our approach to responsible AI at Microsoft". www.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  2. ^ "2019 Organizing Committee". neurips.cc. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  3. ^ "2021 Organizing Committee". neurips.cc. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  4. ^ "Women in Machine Learning". Retrieved 2022-01-26.