Bio

Ethics professional with 16 yrs of experience in advising corporations in developing ethics policies, creating ethics and compliance content, training people on ethics, conducting risk assessments, and assisting in fact-finding reviews. I am a Artificial Intelligence (AI) Ethics researcher for the past 3 years with a focus on ethical issues and downside risks associated with artificial intelligence systems. I have published papers at ASIS&T SIG-SI and SIG-IEP workshop, Annual Conference of SEAC 2021, A Better Tech convention and career fair, BHCC 2021, and SweDS 2022. One of the papers got selected for poster presentation at NeurIPS 2022 workshop. I am a Fellow of ForHumanity, an organization working towards building criteria for audit of AI systems. Co-authored the Risk Management Framework for audit of AI systems as part of ForHumanity. I collaborate with AI Governance and Risk platforms in embedding responsible AI in products. I am a Member of Ministry of Telecommunication's TEC Fairness working group in building a standard for fairness in the Indian context. I co-developed AI risk management framework along with Ryan carrier, Founder ForHumanity . I create memes, art, short stories, and games (digital and physical) to create awareness of on AI ethics. I speak on AI ethics, risk, and governance. I am a Podcast Host (I have hosted over 50 podcasts with professionals from over 15 countries), and I continue to work with professionals across geographies on Ethics research. Research interest: Fairness, Ethics of automation technologies in building AI, Nudges and dark patterns in design, testing, evaluation, or audit of AI systems Some of the research work: a holistic framework for validity, effectiveness evaluation for human-in-the-loop, use of games for increasing bias awareness for data science teams, examining bias amplified by hyperparameter choices in a neural network, automated misinformation caused by mistranslation of news feed translations in low resource languages, examining nudges and dark patterns in apps used by children.