Michael Kearns

University of Pennsylvania; Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences

Michael Kearns is a professor and the National Center Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and the founding director of the Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences.

Featured Work

DEC 4, 2019 Podcast

Carnegie New Leaders Podcast: Designing an Ethical Algorithm, with Michael Kearns

How can algorithms be made more "ethical"? How can we design AI to protect against biases when it comes to loan applications or policing? UPenn's ...

NOV 11, 2019 Transcript

The Ethical Algorithm, with Michael Kearns

Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. They have made our lives more efficient, ...