Justine Cassell

Justine Cassell is jointly appointed as Dean's Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and Senior Researcher at Inria Paris, where she also holds a chair in Artificial Intelligence in the PRAIRIE institute. Cassell came to CMU in 2010 to lead the department of Human-Computer Interaction. Previously she was faculty at Northwestern University where she founded the Technology and Social Behavior Doctoral Program and Research Center, and before that she was a tenured professor at the MIT Media Lab. Cassell has received the MIT Edgerton Prize, Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision award, the AAMAS Test of Time paper award, and the National Academy of Sciences Henry and Bryna David Prize. She is a fellow of the AAAS, the Royal Academy of Scotland, and the ACM. She has an honorary doctorate from Edinburgh University in Scotland. Justine has consulted for governments around the world as they develop policies about the use of AI technologies, and she is a co-founder of EqualAI, a non-profit working on reducing bias in AI by leading the movement for innovative, responsible, and inclusive artificial intelligence.