AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES

Rayid Ghani is a professor in Machine Learning (ML) and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University focused on developing and using AI/ML/Data Science to help tackle large public policy and societal challenges in a fair and equitable manner. Among other areas, Ghani works with governments and non-profits across health, criminal justice, education, public safety, and economic development, supports them in developing AI governance policies, and conducts research in Human-AI interaction and bias and fairness issues for ML systems. Before joining Carnegie Mellon University, Ghani was the founding director of the Center for Data Science & Public Policy, research associate professor in Computer Science, and a senior fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Previously, Ghani was the chief scientist of the Obama 2012 Election Campaign.

Linda Langston is the president of Langston Strategies Group serving as a consultant to those interested in resilience planning. Langston served on the Linn County, IA Board of Supervisors for 14 years and also served as the president of the National Association of Counties. She has served on a variety of local, state and federal committees and commissions, including two terms as the chair of her local board of health. Langston continues to serve as an adjunct instructor for Emergency Management Institute and FEMA. She has served two terms on Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Advisory Council, multiple terms on the National Academy of Sciences’ Resilient America Roundtable and two terms as chair. Langston presently serves on the Division of Earth and Life Sciences Committee at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Nathan J. McNeese is the McQueen Quattlebaum endowed associate professor of Human-Centered Computing, the founding director of the Clemson University Center for Human-AI Interaction, Collaboration, & Teaming, and the founding director of the Team Research Analytics in Computational Environments Research Group in the School of Computing at Clemson University. He held the College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences dean’s professorship at Clemson prior to his current endowed appointment. MCNeese’s area of expertise is in human-autonomy/AI teaming and human-centered AI. For over a decade, he has helped to pioneer the field of human-autonomy/AI teaming. McNeese has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator for more than 30 research grants and awards, generating more than $39 million in funding. He has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award, the Clemson University Researcher of the Year, the HFES William C. Howell Young Investigator Award, and The Pennsylvania State University College of Information Sciences & Technology Overall Outstanding Alumni Award among additional significant honors. McNeese’s research has received multiple best paper awards/nominations (nine total) and has been published in top peer-reviewed human-computer interaction and human factors venues over 150 times. He received a Ph.D. in information sciences & technology from The Pennsylvania State University. He is a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine board member on the Board of Human Systems Integration.

Suresh Venkatasubramanian is a professor of Data Science and Computer Science at Brown University. His background is in algorithms and computational geometry, as well as data mining and machine learning. Venkatasubramanian’s current research interests lie in algorithmic fairness, and more generally the impact of automated decision-making systems in society. Prior to Brown University, he was at the University of Utah, whereas an assistant professor he was the John and Marva Warnock assistant professor and received a CAREER award from the NSF for his work in the geometry of probability. Venkatasubramanian has received a test-of-time award at ICDE 2017 for his work in privacy. His research on algorithmic fairness has received press coverage across North America and Europe, including NPR’s Science Friday, NBC, and CNN, as well as in other media outlets. Venkatasubramanian is a past member of the Computing Community Consortium Council of the CRA, was a member of the board of the ACLU in Utah, and is a past member of New York City’s Failure to Appear Tool Research Advisory Council, the Research Advisory Council for the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania and the Utah State Auditor’s Commission on protecting privacy and preventing discrimination. For the 2021–2022 academic year, he served as assistant director for Science and Justice in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

*The authors declare no competing interests or disclosures.*