Solon Barocas, Ph.D.

Barocas is a principal researcher in the New York City lab of Microsoft Research and an adjunct assistant professor in the department of information science at Cornell University. His research explores ethical and policy issues in artificial intelligence, particularly fairness in machine learning, methods for bringing accountability to automated decision-making, and the privacy implications of inference. He co-founded the ACM conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT).