Milan Mossé is a philosophy PhD student working primarily on moral and political philosophy. His dissertation concerns the ways in which the values served by requests, offers, commands, and other forms of second-personal address constrain their permissible use, but Milan has also worked on AI, explainable AI, algorithmic fairness, and AI safety. At the Kavli Center, he will continue working with collaborators on a model of algorithmic discrimination, and on a paper concerning the right to explanation. He is excited to explore more public-facing work and to pursue interdisciplinary projects...
P.S.Nandini, MS, is a PhD student in Dr. Edward Chang's Lab at UCSF as part of the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Bioengineering Graduate Program. She holds an MS in Neuroscience from Berlin, Germany and Amsterdam, Netherlands, with the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship. For her PhD, Nandini is researching invasive deep brain stimulation in humans to treat depression in patients with treatment-resistant depression who have been surgically implanted with a brain-computer interface (BCI), as part of an ongoing clinical trial.
As a Kavli Ethics, Science, and the Public Fellow, Nandini is interested...
Jenna Petersen, MS, CGC, is a genetic counselor by training and is currently pursuing a Masters of Business Administration at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. Her professional experience includes consulting on the development of precision medicine and population genomics programs and providing clinical guidance for large-scale consumer genetic testing products. She specializes in developing education and engagement strategies for patients and healthcare providers to promote the responsible adoption of genomics initiatives. At the Kavli Center, Petersen will examine how...
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Center for Human-Compatible AI
Berkeley AI Research
Anand Siththaranjan is a PhD student at Berkeley AI Research and the Center for Human-Compatible AI. His work has focused on microeconomic theory and machine learning, studying how to analyze and design social systems with human and learning-based agents. In joining the Kavli Center, Anand wants to leverage theories of moral philosophy and social choice to inform the development of responsible technologies and institutions.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Kaylene Caswell Stocking is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer sciences, advised by Professor Claire Tomlin. Her research lies at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and cognitive science. She is especially interested in understanding the kinds of representations that support generalization and learning about one's environment through interaction by both developing novel robotics algorithms inspired by what we know about how humans learn about the world, and by studying existing algorithms and their connections to the representations used by humans. More...
Sophia Tomatz is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley. She works in the lab of Markita Landry, where she studies applications of nanoparticles for delivery of biological cargos to plant systems for agricultural and gene editing applications. Sophia is interested in exploring the nexus between plant gene editing and agricultural systems. In particular, she looks to use her time as a Kavli Ethics, Science, and the Public Graduate Fellow to explore the intersection between academic spaces, international regulatory policies, and...
