Alex Hanna, Ph.D. is currently the Director of Research at The Distributed AI Research Institute and a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, Alex worked as a Senior Research Scientist in Ethical AI at Google, focusing on data used in training machine learning models from a science and technology studies perspective. Alex has also held positions at the University of Toronto and University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a background in sociology and a strong interest in machine learning fairness.
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The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
We are an interdisciplinary and globally distributed AI research institute rooted in the belief that AI is not inevitable, its harms are preventable, and when its production and deployment include diverse perspectives and deliberate processes it can be beneficial. Our research reflects our lived experiences and centers our communities.