Interdisciplinary

Elisa Celis is an assistant professor in the Statistics & Data Science department at Yale University. She studies the manifestation of social and economic biases in our online lives via the algorithms that encode and perpetuate them. Her research leverages both experimental and theoretical approaches, and her work spans multiple disciplines including data science, machine learning, fairness in socio-technical systems and algorithm design.

At Yale she co-founded the Computation and Society Initiative.

Ethan Chiu is a BA/MPP student at Yale University studying Global Affairs and History, with a passion for technology, national security, and industrial policy. He was most recently a fellow on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and Red Cell Partners. Previously, he served as a Director’s Fellow at the Yale Digital Ethics Center, where he researched the evolution of labor conditions in American, Taiwanese, Japanese, and German semiconductor supply chains from the 1960s to the present. He also worked as a research program manager for Dr.

Sabbi Gale-Donnelly (she/they) is a third-year who studies Philosophy and Comparative Literature. She focuses in part on how theories of language can be utilized to measure the strength of, and effectively bolster, systems of governance. Sabbi has worked in government at the state and federal level, including most recently as an intern to the office of U.S. Senator Gillibrand, where she developed recommendations for the improvement of health insurance accessibility for long-term vector-borne disease patients.