Dr. Finale Doshi Velez

Biography

Finale Doshi-Velez is the Herchel Smith Professor at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, with a focus on the intersection of machine learning, healthcare, and interpretability. She completed her MSc at the University of Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar, followed by a PhD at MIT, and subsequently a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests span a range of topics including the transparency and accountability of AI systems, exploring how these technologies impact society and the ethics surrounding their use. As an academic, she has contributed to discussions on the need for human-intelligible and human-actionable information from AI, emphasizing the importance of understanding the moral, societal, and legal dimensions of explanations required in AI systems.

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