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.
Computer Science professor Dr. Ari Schlesinger will be presenting on "Critical Perspectives on (Human-Centered) Computing."