Selected talks & conferences



I will be at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), May 29-30, 2025 and the Governing Data symposium at Yale Law School, March 28-29, 2025 talking about “AI Evaluations and the Standards Metaphor” with Amina Abdu

I will be at NeurIPS speaking at the EvalEval Workshop on Evaluating Evaluations: Examining Best Practices for Measuring Broader Impacts of Generative AI on December 15, 2024! 

June & July 2024: I am on the planning committee for the Human and Organizational Factors in AI Risk Management: Workshop series hosted by the National Academies

︎︎︎ Workshop on Human and Organizational Factors in AI Risk Management: Evaluation, Testing, and Oversight. Organizing Committee The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, June 20, 2024 [ Event recording ]

︎︎︎Workshop on Human and Organizational Factors in AI Risk Management: Designing Paths Forward in AI Risk Management. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, July 2, 2024, Washington D.C. 

Annual Ethical AI Symposium, Michigan Institute for Data Science, University of Michigan, April 2024. Keynote speaker

Carnegie Mellon, Human-Computer Interaction Institute seminar, March 2024 

Emory, Quantitative Theory and Methods seminar, October 2023

University of Maryland, Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence seminar, October 2023

Co-organizer: “Operationalizing the Measure Function of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework,” co-organized with the Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI); the NIST-National Science Foundation (NSF) Institute for Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRAILS); and the Federation of American Scientists (FAS). October 2023 [writeup]

Organizer: “Sociotechnical Approaches to Measurement and Validation for Safety in AI” Workshop, hosted by the Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence (CASMI). July 2023 [writeup]

University of Washington Center for an Informed Public. May 2023

Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics seminar. October 2022

Stanford Graduate School of Business, Organizational Behavior seminar. October 2022


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