Vinodkumar Prabhakaran is a Senior Research Scientist at Google’s Responsible AI and Human Centered Technologies org, working on issues around ethics, fairness and transparency in artificial intelligence and natural language processing. He is one of the leads of the Technology and Society Collective team that advances responsible AI through participatory, culturally inclusive, and intersectional equity-oriented research. Vinod obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University and conducted his postdoctoral research at Stanford University. His academic research focused on building scalable computational ways to identify and address large-scale societal issues such as racial disparities in policing, workplace incivility, and online abuse. He has published over 40 articles in top-tier venues such as the PNAS, ACL, TACL, NAACL, EMNLP, and FAccT.
