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Anne L. Washington, PhD, is a scholar in public interest technology and holds the Rothermere Associate Professor chair in Technology Policy at the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University. Her research investigates the governance of emerging digital technologies, focusing on balancing power in human lives and organizations that control digital record-keeping systems. Washington examines digital technology intended to serve the common good, exploring data science, automated decision systems, and artificial intelligence through lenses of ethics and institutional legitimacy. She is recognized for her work on open data, transparency, digital government, and tech ethics, having testified before Congress on the ethics of artificial intelligence in financial services. Washington has chaired the ACM/AAAI Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Society Conference and has received multiple awards for her contributions, including a five-year NSF CAREER award funding her Digital Interests Lab, which centers on human empowerment and informed history. With degrees in library information science and a doctorate in business, she has also worked in legislative information systems and spent eight years in the financial technology sector. Her publications include the upcoming book "Ethical Data Science: Prediction for the Public Interest" published by Oxford University Press.
Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)