My name is Dasha. I'm an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. 

My research critically examines the societal implications of AI/ML systems, with a focus on algorithmic decision-making systems used in the US criminal legal system. I have written about recidivism risk assessment instruments, predictive policing tools, electronic monitoring, and other carceral technologies. I have also co-organized efforts to ban police use of facial recognition and predictive policing in the city of Pittsburgh. In 2024, I organized Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI, which brought together scholars and activists from around the world to address technologies designed to police, incarcerate and surveil human beings. Read our critical report on carceral AI here. 

I received my PhD in History & Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 2023, where I was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow, and I hold a BS in computer science. I am currently on leave from George Mason University, where I was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science from 2024-2025. Before that, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where I was jointly a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center and a postdoctoral fellow in the Embedded EthiCS program.