Assistant Professor, Computer Science Dr. Ari Schlesinger is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, and directs the Socially Responsible Tech Lab. Using interdisciplinary methods, Dr. Schlesinger focuses on developing socio-technical systems with the tech community that center anti-discrimination, intersectionality, and equity in consistent and sustainable ways. Her goal to make harm-reduction strategies in computing accessible to the general public, the research community, and the tech industry. Her research on socially-responsible computation has addressed artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, and computing broadly.Dr. Schlesinger’s work on the ways social issues become encoded in technical ecosystems has been published in premier HCI venues like the ACM CHI Conference—including a best paper award given to the top 1% of submissions. Dr. Schlesinger received her PhD from Georgia Tech in Human-Centered Computing. She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and serves on the ACM US Technology Policy Council.
