Alexandra Olteanu

Alexandra Olteanu is a Responsible AI researcher. Until recently she was a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal, part of the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) Montreal team; which she was a founding member of and later rebuilt. She is also an associate industry member at Mila. Her work routinely unpacks and challenges practices and assumptions made when designing, evaluating, deploying or communicating about AI systems. Her most recent work focuses on 1) rigor in AI (with a focus on conceptual clarity, measurement, and evaluation), and 2) human agency (with a focus on anthropomorphic AI systems’ design, behavior, and impact). Before joining Microsoft Research, Alexandra was a Social Good Fellow at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. Alexandra has co-organized tutorials/workshops and has served as PC/SPC/AC and in many other service roles for most major web, social media, and responsible AI conferences. She has also served as the inaugural co-chair of the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics on the Web track @ The 2023 Web Conference, and as the 2024 Program Co-chair for the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. Alexandra holds a PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Alexandra Olteanu is a Responsible AI researcher. She was previously a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal, part of the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) Montreal team; which she was a founding member of and later rebuilt. She is an associate industry member at Mila. Before Microsoft Research, Alexandra was a Social Good Fellow at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center. Her work routinely unpacks and challenges practices and assumptions made when designing, evaluating, deploying or communicating about AI systems. Her most recent work focuses on 1) rigor in AI (with a focus on conceptual clarity, measurement, and evaluation), and 2) human agency (with a focus on anthropomorphic AI systems’ design, behavior, and impact). Alexandra holds a PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

Alexandra Olteanu is a Responsible AI researcher, who has spent about a decade in the tech industry (Microsoft Research and IBM Research). Her work routinely unpacks and challenges practices and assumptions made when designing, evaluating, deploying or communicating about AI systems. Alexandra holds a PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.