Sorelle Friedler

Sorelle Friedler is a nonresident senior fellow in the Governance Studies program at Brookings. Friedler is also the Shibulal Family Professor of Computer Science at Haverford College. She served as the assistant director for Data and Democracy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Biden-Harris Administration where her work included the AI Bill of Rights. Friedler is a co-founder and former Executive Committee Member of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). Her research focuses on the fairness and interpretability of machine learning algorithms, with applications from criminal justice to materials discovery. Key papers include work on disparate impact in machine learning and on accelerating materials discovery with interpretable machine learning. Friedler was formerly a software engineer at Alphabet (formerly Google), where she worked in the X lab and in search infrastructure. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.