Sorelle Friedler is the Shibulal Family Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution, and the Chair of ACM’s U.S. Technology Policy Committee. She previously served as the Assistant Director for Data and Democracy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Biden-Harris Administration where she co-authored the AI Bill of Rights and contributed to policy governing the federal use of AI. Her research focuses on the fairness and interpretability of machine learning and she is a Co-Founder of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT).
Prof. Friedler has received grants for her work on fairness in machine learning, fairness and social networks, using interpretable machine learning techniques to inform scientific hypotheses, responsible CS education, and policy and discriminatory machine learning. Key papers include work on disparate impact in maching learning and on accelerating materials discovery with interpretable machine learning.
Before Haverford, Prof. Friedler was a software engineer at Alphabet (formerly Google), where she worked in the X lab and in search infrastructure. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.