Tina Law
Tina Law is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She studies inequality, race and ethnicity, democracy, and computational methodology. She uses computational and quantitative methods to understand the social and political experiences of racially minoritized and low-income Americans, particularly how they define and advance their goals for housing, safety, and political self-determination in cities that are often highly unequal. She also develops approaches for using AI and natural language processing to analyze text and image data. She holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University.
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Ricardo Baeza-Yates is a distinguished computer scientist specializing in information retrieval, web search, data mining, and responsible AI. He is the Director of the new AI Institute of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He is the former Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University's Silicon Valley campus. He also holds professorships at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and the University of Chile in Santiago. Baeza-Yates is renowned for his work on algorithmic fairness and the ethical implications of AI systems, bridging technical innovation with societal impact. He is a Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE and actively participates in global initiatives on responsible AI.
Erin Lockwood
Erin Lockwood is an assistant professor in the UCI Department of Political Science. Her research and teaching focus on the politics of risk and uncertainty as they relate to financial regulation, AI, and climate intervention. She also works on the politics of global economic inequality. Her research has been published in Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Theory & Society, and numerous edited volumes.