The ACM FAccT Steering Committee is responsible for representing the interests of the ACM FAccT community, shaping the future trajectory of the conference, and deciding substantive matters related to the conference. This includes approving conference locations and key personnel; approving new members of the Executive Committee; amending the conference bylaws; etc. Steering Committee members may serve two two-year terms.

All SC members state that they act in an individual capacity, and not as a representative of their employer(s) and/or funder(s).

Current Members [click name to view financial disclosure at end of table]

Name and Affiliation Joined Term Ends
Atoosa Kasirzadeh, University of Edinburgh 1/1/23 1/1/27
1/1/23 1/1/27
Christina Harrington, Carnegie Mellon University 1/1/23 1/1/27
4/14/23 4/14/27
Danaé Metaxa, University of Pennsylvania 6/30/24 6/30/28
4/14/23 4/14/27
11/5/23 11/5/27
11/5/23 11/5/27
Ivana Feldfeber, DataGénero 4/14/23 4/14/27
Jat Singh, University of Cambridge and Alan Turing Institute 4/14/23 4/14/27
Jessica Hullman, Northwestern University 1/1/23 1/1/27
4/14/23 4/14/27
Lilian Edwards, Newcastle University 1/1/23 1/1/27
4/14/23 4/14/27
4/14/23 4/14/27
Moon Choi, KAIST 4/14/23 4/14/27
Peaks Krafft, University of Arts London 4/14/23 4/14/27
11/5/23 11/5/27
11/1/23 11/1/27
Sina Fazelpour, Northeastern University 10/1/24 7/1/28
Shakir Mohamed, Google DeepMind 10/1/24 7/1/28
Talia Gillis, Columbia University 10/1/24 7/1/28
4/14/23 4/14/27

Chenhao Tan is employed at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA). Previously, he was at the University of Colorado at Boulder (Boulder, CO, USA) and an employee of the State of Colorado. Through his university, he has received research grants from the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, Amazon, Google, IBM, JP Morgan, Meta, Open Philanthropy, and Salesforce. In his individual capacity, he has received payment from the NSF for participating in grant review panels and honorariums from various organizations for speaking.

Dallas Card is employed at the University of Michigan, where he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information. Through competitive internal proposals, he has received funding from the University of Michigan Institute for Data Science. In his previous role as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, he was supported, in part, by funding from the Stanford Data Science Institute.

Damini Satija is employed by Amnesty International USA which is a 501c3 non-profit. The current funders of her work are the Dutch Postcode Lottery fund. She is also an advisory board member at the University College Dublin's Centre for Digital Policy which is partially funded by Microsoft. Prior to this, she was working in a UK government body. She has also served in the College of Peer Reviewers for the UK National Research Centre of Excellence in Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online (REPHRAIN), funded by UK Research and Innovation, a public body in the UK.

Fabro Steibel is emploiyed at ITS Rio. He has a post-doc in media & technology at UFF University, and a lawyer degree at FAE. Fabro is an alumni at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. He is a former member of the Global Council at the World Economic Forum, has a PhD at the University of Leeds, and his past institutions include UCSD (USA), UN University (China), and UFF (Brazil). He is a member of the National Data Protection Council at the DAP of Brazil.

My research group is funded by research awards from the U.S. National Science Foundation, internal (to Harvard) faculty awards, and gifts from Google, Oracle, IBM, and Amazon. Corporate gifts do not have reporting and research deliverable expectations attached. In the past, I have advised students who received industry fellowships (e.g., Meta Ph.D. Fellowship). I also host visitors sponsored by funds from their local government (e.g., State of São Paulo Research Foundation in Brazil).

He is employed, as Professor of ICT and Law, at the iHub Institute and the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences (iCIS) of Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He has received grants from the same university, paid from the university’s own budget. As part of a consortium called FINDHR, he has received a research grant from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101070212. In 2017, he has received a personal research grant from the European Union’s Marie Curie program. Some organisations paid his university for reports (co)authored by him, most recently the Dutch Ministry of Justice (2019), the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (2019), and the European Parliament (2017). Sometimes an organisation pays his university if he gives a keynote etc. (no payment ever exceeded 5000 Euro). Conference organisers etc. have paid for travel and hotel costs (no payment ever exceeded 5000 Euro).

Kush Varshney is employed at International Business Machines Corporation (since 2010). He has not had any external research funding.

No additional funding sources to disclose.

No additional funding sources to disclose.

Min Kyung Lee is employed at the University of Texas at Austin, where she is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information. UT Austin is a public university, so she is an employee of the State of Texas. She has received grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Swedish Research Council (Forte), Swedish AFA Insurance, and UT Austin’s Good Systems and Humanities Institutes.

I am employed at the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor (2020-present). In the last 5 years I have been a co-investigator on research grants funded by the The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK), the Oxford Martin School, the Nuffield Foundation, and the KR Foundation. In an individual capacity, I have received payment for report-writing, consulting, speaking and training from The Information Commissioner’s Office, Foxglove Legal, Hausfeld, The Legal Education Foundation, The Institute for the Future of Work, The European Commission, 5Rights Foundation, and the Open Data Institute. I am a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Future of Work, and a member of the advisory board at Worker Info Exchange.

Ricardo Baeza-Yates is Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University. He is also a part-time Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Universidad de Chile in Santiago. Occasionally he does technical consulting on responsible AI for non-gubernamental organizations and industry as well as technical advice to startups.

Vinhcent is employed by The Greenlining Institute (GLI), a non-profit racial equity advocacy organization. GLI receives funding from a variety of sources including individual donors, fee for service work, and grants from a variety of institutional donors for either general operating support or for specific programmatic work. Donors include: Crankstart Foundation (Non-profit), Gerbode Foundation (Non-profit), Heising-Simons Foundation (Non-profit), James Irvine Foundation (Non-profit), San Francisco Foundation (Non-profit), Surdna Foundation (Non-profit).

Affiliations are listed for informational purposes only. Members do not represent their organizations.

We are grateful to our previous members of the Steering Committee, for the advice and encouragement they have provided to the conference and the broader community.