Email: s.schmergalunder@ufl.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida, in progress
- M.A., Social Anthropology, Lunds University
Subfield
Past: Gender Studies
Future: Ethics, Morality, Epistemology, Value Alignment, Value Plurality
Chair
Research Interests
I am a professor or Ethics and AI (professor of practice) at the University of Florida (situated in San Francisco), where I teach AI Ethics for at the Leadership Institute of the Herbert Wertheim School of Engineering, focusing on social and cultural considerations of technological innovations and Responsible AI. Prior to joining UFL I was a Principal Research Scientist at Smart Information Flow Technologies, where I was Principal Investigator and team lead for several multi-million-dollar, human-centered AI research projects funded by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). My research interests are concerned with ensuring safe and responsible AI while considering social, cultural and philosophical insights to better address long- and short-term ethical and social impacts on society.
Keywords: AI Ethics, Collective Intelligence, Gender Bias, AI Safety, Beneficial AI, Data Quality, Discourse & NLP
Selected Publications