Hoda Heidari

Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems

Bio

Hoda Heidari is the K&L Gates Career Development Assistant Professor in Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, holding joint appointments in the Machine Learning Department and the Software and Societal Systems Department. She is also affiliated with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at CMU. Additionally, she co-leads both the university-wide Responsible AI Initiative and the K&L Gates Initiative for Ethics and Computational Technologies.

Her research interests focus on the ethical and societal aspects of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with particular emphasis on issues of fairness and accountability. Her work has received support from the NSF Program on Fairness in AI (in collaboration with Amazon), PwC, CyLab, Meta, and J.P. Morgan. She is also a senior personnel member of AI-SDM, the NSF AI Institute for Societal Decision Making.