AI & Society Lab Prof. Sorelle Friedler, Haverford College

Funding

The AI & Society Lab is grateful to have received funding over the years from the National Science Foudnation (NSF), the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Mozilla Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Data & Society Research Institute, the Center on Media, Technology and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Kim Institute for Ethical Inquiry and Leadership at Haverford College. Haverford College also provides core funding, space, and equipment for the lab.

2025

III: Medium: Collaborative Research: Evaluating and Maximizing Fairness in Information Flow on Networks
Aaron Clauset, Blair Sullivan, Sorelle Friedler
NSF IIS-1955321 (2020 - 2025). $995,908. (Haverford portion: 128,670)  ·  2025

2023

TA2+TA3: Discovering Reactions and Uncovering Mechanisms of Hybrid Organohalide Perovskite Formation
Joshua Schrier, Sorelle Friedler, Alexander Norquist
DARPA Synergistic Discovery and Design (SD2) (2018 - 2023). $3,604,943.  ·  2023

2021

Responsible Problem Solving: Focusing on the societal consequences of design choices in data structures and algorithms
Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Sorelle Friedler, Kathi Fisler
Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge (2019 - 2021). $150,000 (Haverford portion: 29,524).  ·  2021

2020

CDS&E: D3SC: The Dark Reaction Project: A machine-learning approach to exploring structural diversity in solid state synthesis
Joshua Schrier, Sorelle Friedler, Alexander Norquist
NSF DMR-1709351 (2017 - 2020). $645,288.  ·  2020

2019

BIGDATA: Collaborative Research: F: Algorithmic Fairness: A Systemic and Foundational Treatment of Nondiscriminatory Data Mining
Suresh Venkatasubramanian, danah boyd, Sorelle Friedler
NSF IIS-1633387 (2016 - 2019). $953,432 (Haverford portion: 172,742)  ·  2019

2016

Preventing Discrimination in Machine Learning: from theory to law and policy
Sorelle Friedler
Data and Society Research Institute Fellow (2015 - 2016). $10,000  ·  2016
Could your data discriminate?
Sorelle Friedler, Wilneida Negron, Surya Mattu, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Knight News Challenge Prototype Fund (2016). $35,000  ·  2016
The Dark Reaction Project: a machine learning approach to materials discovery
Joshua Schrier, Alexander Norquist, Sorelle Friedler
NSF DMR-1307801 (2013 - 2016). $299,998.  ·  2016