Who we are

The Human-Centered AI Lab brings together researchers, policymakers, and technologists across institutions.

Co-Founder · Principal Investigator

Professor of Humanities & Comparative Literature, Faculty in Computing, Kenyon College. Director of the Integrated Program in Humane Studies (IPHS). Author, The Shapes of Stories (Cambridge UP, 2022) and Philosophical Approaches to Proust's In Search of Lost Time (OUP, 2022). Ph.D., UC Berkeley. PI in the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium (CAISI) and for Schmidt Sciences HAVI. Keynotes at OpenAI, UNESCO, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, RALLY Innovation.

Co-Founder · Director · Principal Investigator

AI research scientist, Kenyon College. Co-creator of the first human-centered AI curriculum. Created SentimentArcs, the first large-ensemble methodology for diachronic sentiment analysis. ICML 2024 oral presentation (top 2%). PI in the NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium (CAISI) and for Schmidt Sciences HAVI. Co-founded SafeWeb ($26M acquisition by Symantec; first In-Q-Tel security investment). UC Berkeley EECS, UT Austin MS. Two US patents.

Board Member

Founder and Director, The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College. Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute.

Board Member

Bruce R. Kuniholm Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy, Duke University. Sanford School of Public Policy.

Advisor

Product Manager, eBay (Generative AI for consumer fashion). Founder of Yakera.com, crowdfunding and cash transfer platform across Latin America.