Solon Barocas

Solon Barocas is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. His research explores issues of fairness in machine learning, methods for bringing accountability to automated decisions, the privacy implications of inference, and the role that privacy plays in mitigating economic inequality. Solon completed his doctorate in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, where he remains an affiliate of the Information Law Institute. He also works with the Data & Society Research Institute and serves on the National Science Foundation-sponsored Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society.