Ravit Dotan, PhD
Data and AI Ethics
Advisor, Speaker, and Researcher
Recognition
Inclusion in the
"100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics"
2023 List
Distinguished Paper Award
FAccT 2022
For the paper:
"The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research"
FAccT is the leading publication in AI ethics.
The paper exposes the political nature of the discipline of machine learning.
Read the paper here
Read coverage of the paper in MAIEI, VentureBeat, and Mozilla
Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics
Research Grant, 2023
For the project:
"A framework for auditing
organizations' responsible AI maturity"
The team is creating a framework to audit the responsible AI maturity of organizations. The framework will evaluate organizations on three aspects: their knowledge of AI ethics, how well they embed AI ethics practices into their workflows, and what oversight structures they use for AI ethics.
The project is carried out by
the CAIR Lab, which I lead.
Read the grant announcement here
Philosophy Postdoc,
The Center for Philosophy of Science, Pittsburgh University
Focus Areas:
AI ethics, Responsible Investments
While at the Center, I researched
responsible AI, responsible investment,
and their intersections. A 5-minute video describing it is here.
The Center is the top center for philosophy of science in the world.
The University of Pittsburgh
is one of the top five universities in philosophy in the world.
Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics
Research Grant, 2022
For the project:
"Increasing Venture Capital Investment
in Ethical Tech"
The goal of the project is to develop tools to increase investments in responsible tech,
and especially venture capital investments
The project is in collaboration with VentureESG
Read the grant announcement here
Philosophy PhD
UC Berkeley
Focus Areas:
AI ethics, philosophy of science, epistemology
My dissertation was about power dynamics in science and the discipline of machine learning.
A summary of my dissertation is here.
I published peer-reviewed papers in top journals, co-edited a book, gave ~50 talks, and taught hundreds of students
UC Berkeley's philosophy department
is one of the top-15 philosophy departments
in the world
