Scholar
William Agnew
Google Scholar ID: _B-tud4AAAAJ
Postdoc, Carnegie Mellon University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,694
H-index
12
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Work featured in The New York Times (2), The Washington Post, Nature (2), MIT Tech Review (2), Wired (3), and 404Media
- Founded Queer in AI in 2018 to promote inclusion of queer researchers in AI and raise awareness of AI-related harms to queer communities
- Chaired the first Queer in AI @ NeurIPS satellite workshop; helped organize Queer in AI workshops at ICML 2019, NeurIPS 2019, and ICML 2020, plus numerous social events
- Served on the NeurIPS 2018 Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board
- Vice President of External STEM Partnerships at oSTEM
- Co-founded and led the Undergraduate Research Ambassadors Program and Big O Theoretical Computer Science Club at Georgia Tech as an undergraduate
- Proposed and organized the first Home Depot Deep Learning Competition at Georgia Tech
- Mentors multiple undergraduate and graduate students
Background
- CBI Postdoc Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Research interests include AI ethics, critical AI, community mobilization, and 3D vision
- Uses audits, human subjects research, and critical analysis to predict and understand the impacts of AI on the world
- Collaborates with policymakers, civil society, and impacted communities to identify and close knowledge gaps hindering progress
- Develops technical tools for broad audiences to mitigate AI harms