Anjali Mazumder

Anjali Mazumder is the Theme Lead on AI and Justice & Human Rights and the Research Chair for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at The Alan Turing Institute. (The Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute of data science and artificial intelligence.)

Her work is at the intersection of algorithms and the law where her interest is in actualising the benefits and opportunities of data science and AI whilst mitigating and balancing against its potential harms and risks in applications of justice, health, education, finance, etc. Her research focuses on developing, evaluating and expanding the solution space for socio-technical systems addressing issues of fairness, inequalities, robustness and privacy; and promoting the law, human rights, diversity and inclusion at the core of responsible data, data flows and AI research, innovation and governance.

 She has over 15 years’ experience tackling fundamental statistical problems of societal importance working at the interface of research, policy and practice in the UK, the US, and Canada, in the areas of justice, education, health and public safety, and, fostering multi-disciplinary and cross-sector collaborations. She serves the statistics community in various ways including as an elected Council member of the Royal Statistical Society, and committee member of its respective Statistics and the Law, and the Data Science sections. She was appointed to Canada’s National DNA Databank Advisory Committee (2012-2018) and currently serves on the Research Advisory Board Panel for the Educational Testing Service, and the senior management board of the UK’s Policy and Evidence Centre for Modern Slavery and Human Rights. She holds a doctorate in Statistics from the University of Oxford and two masters’ degrees in Measurement and Evaluation, and Statistics from the University of Toronto.