Renée Cummings

Professor Renée Cummings is an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Data Science at the University of Virginia’s (UVA) School of Data Science.  Professor Cummings is an artificial intelligence (AI) tech ethicist and the first data activist-in-residence at the School of Data Science at UVA. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and a distinguished member of the World Economic Forum’s Data Equity Council.  Professor Cummings is a criminologist, Criminal Psychologist, Artificial Intelligence Ethicist, Therapeutic Jurisprudence Specialist and an Urban Technologist.  Her particular areas of interest include the impact of artificial intelligence on criminal justice, specifically in communities of color and incarcerated populations.  Professor Cummings recently spoke on The Evolution of the Internet for the Director’s Lecture Series SOAS University of London and will deliver the Day One keynote address at Datafest in Johannesburg, South Africa.   Professor Cummings is a product of the Trinidad & Tobago primary and secondary school system.