Jennifer Wortman Vaughan | |
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Alma mater | Boston University Stanford University University of Pennsylvania |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | Harvard University University of California, Los Angeles Microsoft Research |
Website | Personal 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.