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Jane Smith

Lead Research Investigator

Department Computer Science & Ethics
Affiliation AI Safety Institute

Biography

Jane is a PhD candidate specializing in Algorithmic Fairness and Sociotechnical systems. Her work focuses on the intersection of machine learning and civil rights, developing mathematical frameworks to audit automated decision-making systems for discriminatory outcomes. She has spent the last three years consulting with tech non-profits on data ethics protocols.

Project Contributions

Fairness Metrics Dev

Implemented the core Demographics Parity and Equalized Odds testing suite for the project's analysis phase.

Data Synthesis

Led the cleaning and normalization process for the COMPAS and Adult dataset comparisons.

Selected Publications

2024 • Journal of AI Ethics

Quantifying Proxy Bias in Financial Scoring Models

2023 • ICML Workshop

The Moral Hazard of Optimization: A Review