Dr. Shazeda Ahmed is the Project Director of think/nav AI Research at the University of California, Los Angeles. Shazeda holds a PhD from UC Berkeley’s School of Information. Previously, she has been a researcher at Upturn, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, the Citizen Lab, Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), the AI Now Institute, and Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Her research has investigated how tech firms and the Chinese government are collaborating on the country’s social credit system, the political economy of emotion-recognition and courtroom AI technologies in China, and the epistemic culture of the emerging field of AI safety. Her work has been featured in outlets including the Financial Times, WIRED, The New York Times, and the BBC.
