Alexandra Olteanu

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Alexandra Olteanu is a computational social science and social computing researcher.  Currently, she is a principal researcher at Microsoft Research Montreal, where she is part of the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) team, and an associate industry member at Mila. Before joining Microsoft Research, Alexandra was a Social Good Fellow at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, and she holds a PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Her work routinely unpacks and challenges practices and assumptions made when designing, evaluating, deploying or talking about AI systems. Currently, her work is primarily related to 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 and behavior). Her work has won several research paper awards and has been featured in popular media outlets. Alexandra has co-organized tutorials/workshops at and has served as PC/SPC/AC for most major web, social media, and responsible AI conferences. She has 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 (for which she has also been the longest serving steering committee member). She draws her experience from academic institutions and research labs across 6 different countries.