Professor Renée Cummings, an award winning artificial intelligence innovator, is an artificial intelligence (AI), data and tech ethicist, and the first data activist-in-residence at the University of Virginia’s (UVA) School of Data Science where she was named Professor of Practice in Data Science. She’s also the inaugural senior fellow in AI, Data and Policy at All Tech Is Human, a leading international think tank. 

Professor Cummings is also a nonresident senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, co-director of Brookings’ Equity Lab, and a distinguished member of the World Economic Forum’s Data Equity Council and the World Economic Forum’s AI Governance Alliance. She is also a member of the Global Academic Network, at the Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP), Washington, D.C. 

A criminologist, criminal psychologist, therapeutic jurisprudence specialist, and a community scholar at Columbia University, Professor Cummings serves as co-director of the Public Interest Technology (PIT) University Network, at UVA, and is on the board of advisors of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. 

Listed among the world’s top 100 women in AI ethics, Professor Cummings is a thought- leader, motivational speaker, and mentor, who has given a multitude of lectures, keynotes and talks to a variety of audiences, including policymakers in the U.S. Senate. She’s an internationally recognized expert on responsible AI, ethical data science, and technology we can trust. Professor Cummings offers expert analysis, on national and international television, on everything from criminology to augmented collective intelligence. She has mastered the art of creative storytelling and deconstructing complex topics into critical everyday conversations that inform and inspire.

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