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Margot E. Kaminski
OccupationAssociate Professor
Known forArtificial Intelligence
Information Privacy
AI Ethics
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University (B.A.)
Yale University (J.D.)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado Law School
Yale Law School
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Margot E. Kaminski is an American professor who works at the intersection of artificial intelligence, privacy, information governance, and online civil liberties.[1] She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School and the Director of Privacy Initiative at the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Her research examines the impacts of new technologies, including autonomous systems, on individual rights to help shape policy and regulation of AI.

Prior to joining Colorado Law, Kaminski was a lecturer at Yale Law School,[2] an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law from 2014 to 2017, and had served as a law clerk to Andrew Kleinfeld, senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Kaminski was selected as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics in 2020.[3]

Education[edit]

Kaminski graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Harvard University in 2004, where she wrote for The Harvard Crimson.[4][5][6] She graduated from Yale Law School in 2010. While at Yale, she co-founded the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic and was a Knight Law and Media Scholar.[4]

Career and research[edit]

After graduation from Yale Law School, Kaminski clerked for Andrew Kleinfeld of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and served as the executive director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School for three years. Then, she joined the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law as an Assistant Professor in 2014, specializing in privacy, intellectual property, and technology law.[7] There, she was selected to serve as fellow of the DC Center for Democracy & Technology.[8]

Margot Kaminski is currently an associate professor at the University of Colorado Law School and Director of the Privacy Initiative at Silicon Flatirons.[9]

In 2019, Kaminski co-authored Algorithmic Impact Assessments under the GDPR with Giancludio Malgieri. The paper attempted to link the risks of profile algorithms, automated decision-making with the EU General Data Protection Regulation tools towards more accountability. Both presented their paper to the U.S. Senate.[10] Her works have also been published in The New York Times,[11] The Economist,[12] and The Atlantic.[13]

Selected awards and recognition[edit]

  • 2016 - Featured in Lawfare's List of Female Technology Experts[14]
  • 2019 - Received 10th Annual Privacy Paper for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum[10]
  • 2019 - Received Provost Faculty Achievement Award for AI, Data Privacy, and Human Decision-making[15]
  • 2020 - 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics Hall of Fame Honoree[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Margot Kaminski". Internet Policy Review. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  2. ^ "By tweeting about a developing story, could you be inciting a riot?". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  3. ^ a b "Hall of Fame". 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  4. ^ a b "Margot Kaminski '10 Named Executive Director of YLS Information Society Project". law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  5. ^ "Technology | Academics | Policy - Margot Kaminski". www.techpolicy.com. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  6. ^ Kaminski, Margot. "Pocket Full of Poems | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  7. ^ "Privacy, IP expert joins Moritz". The Briefing Room. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
  8. ^ "Kaminski selected to serve as Center for Democracy & Technology fellow". The Briefing Room. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  9. ^ "Margot Kaminski | Silicon Flatirons". Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  10. ^ a b "Professor Margot E. Kaminski to Present Award-Winning Paper at U.S. Senate". Colorado Law. 2019-12-12. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  11. ^ Kaminski, Margot E.; Selbst, Andrew D. (2019-05-07). "Opinion | The Legislation That Targets the Racist Impacts of Tech". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  12. ^ "Toward defining privacy expectations in an age of oversharing". The Economist. 2018-08-16. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  13. ^ Kaminski, Margot (2013-06-07). "PRISM's Legal Basis: How We Got Here, and What We Can Do to Get Back". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  14. ^ "A List of Female Technology Policy Experts". Lawfare. 2016-08-23. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
  15. ^ "Professor Kaminski Recognized With Provost's Faculty Achievement Award". Colorado Law. 2019-09-06. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
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