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Members of the media seeking expert background or insights about ethical AI, AI and society, and interdisciplinary AI research are encouraged to contact Good Systems faculty researchers. This directory of experts across disciplines shows only those faculty who have opted in to be listed; it does not represent every researcher involved with Good Systems.

Please feel free to contact each faculty member directly (preferred contact information is listed below) or reach out to the OVPR Communications Director Karen Adler (karen.adler@austin.utexas.edu) for assistance scheduling interviews or for general information about Good Systems.

 

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bhat

Chandra Bhat

Good Systems Executive Team Member 
Joe J. King Endowed Chair in Engineering, Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering

Areas of Expertise:

  • Automation
  • Emerging mobility technologies: AVs, EVs, connected vehicles, micromobility
  • AI and transportation safety and equity
  • E-commerce impacts on land-use and travel demand

Good Systems Research Project: Designing AI to Advance Racial Equity 

De-Arteaga

Maria De-Arteaga

Assistant Professor
Information, Risk & Operations Management
McCombs School of Business 

Areas of Expertise: 

  • Ethical AI 
  • Algorithmic Fairness 
  • Human-AI Complementarity 
  • AI-supported Decision-making 

Good Systems Research Project: 
Designing Responsible AI Technologies to Protect Information Integrity

Ken Fleischmann

Kenneth R. Fleischmann

Good Systems Executive Team Member & Founding Chair
Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
School of Information

Areas of Expertise:

  • Ethics of AI
  • Role of human values (e.g., transparency, trust, agency) in AI
  • Societal implications of AI
  • AI and the Future of Work
  • AI Ethics Education

Good Systems Research Project: 
Making Smart Tools Work for Everyone

greenberg

Sherri Greenberg

Chair, Good Systems Executive Team
Assistant Dean for State and Local Government Engagement, LBJ School of Public Affairs 
Professor of Practice, LBJ School and Steve Hicks School of Social Work 

Areas of Expertise:

  • Ethical AI and AI policy
  • AI policies and regulations in the private sector
  • AI policies and regulations in the public sector
  • AI and the Future of Work
  • Societal implications of AI, including equity 

Good Systems Research Project: Making Smart Tools Work for Everyone 

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Justin Hart

Assistant Professor of Practice, Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences 

Areas of Expertise: 

  • Human-robot interaction 
  • Artificial intelligence 
  • Robotics 
  • Social Navigation and Semantic Mapping

Good Systems Research Project: Living and Working with Robots 

Jun Feng Jiao

Junfeng Jiao

Good Systems Executive Team Member
Associate Professor, Community and Regional Planning, School of Architecture 

Areas of Expertise: 

  • Smart Cities and Smart Transportation
  • Generative AI & Applications of LLMs in smart cities
  • Ethical AI and AI Alignment  
  • AV/EV/Delivery Robots
  • Digital Twin technology 

Good Systems Research Project: A Good System for Smart Cities

sanders

Amy Kristin Sanders

Associate Professor
School of Journalism and Media
Moody College of Communication

Associate Professor (by courtesy), Texas Law
Editor, Communication Law & Policy

Areas of Expertise:

  • AI Law and Ethics
  • AI and Media
  • AI and Government Transparency
  • AI in the Legal System

Good Systems Research Project: 
Being Watched: Embedding Ethics in Public Cameras

Lease

Matthew Lease

Good Systems Executive Team Member
Professor & Director of Doctoral Studies
School of Information

Areas of Expertise:

  • Fair & Explainable AI
  • Human-computer Interaction (HCI) & Human-in-the-loop computing
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  • Mis/Disinformation, the Information Environment, and Influence Campaigns
  • Toxic Language and Hate Speech

Good Systems Research Project: 
Designing Responsible AI Technologies to Protect Information Integrity

Luis Sentis

Luis Sentis

Chair-Elect
Good Systems Executive Team

Frank and Kay Reese Endowed Professor in Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Cockrell School of Engineering

Areas of Expertise:

  • AI Ethics
  • Design of humanoid and exoskeleton robots
  • Task and motion planning for agile mobile manipulation
  • Human autonomy teaming
  • Autonomous robots

Good Systems Research Project: 
Living and Working with Robots

shorey

Samantha Shorey

Assistant Professor, Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication 

Areas of Expertise: 

  • The impact of automated technologies (such as AI and robots) on workplaces; the disparate impact of automation on women and working-class people 
  • Hype and corporate narratives about AI and robotics 
  • Strategies for designing AI technologies to support workers

Good Systems Research Project: Living and Working with Robots 

stephens

Keri Stephens

Professor, Communications Studies, Moody College of Communication
Co-Director, Technology and Information Policy Institute  

Areas of Expertise: 

  • Human-AI teaming in the workplace
  • Human perceptions and communication with AI systems and robots
  • Understanding of messages and visuals that communicate risk
  • Infrastructure communication
  • Applied team science and convergent, interdisciplinary research processes 

Good Systems Research Project: Living and Working with Robots 

Peter Stone

Peter Stone

Good Systems Executive Team Member
Truchard Foundation Chair in Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences
Director, Texas Robotics 

Areas of Expertise: 

  • AI
  • Robotics
  • Machine Learning
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Societal implications of AI, robotics, & ML  

Good Systems Research Project: Living and Working with Robots 

S Craig Watkins

S. Craig Watkins

Ernest A. Sharpe Centennial Professor
School of Journalism and Media & Radio-Television-Film
Moody College of Communication

Executive Director, IC2 Institute  

Areas of Expertise:

  • AI Ethics
  • AI and Health Care
  • AI and Racial Equity
  • AI and Media

Good Systems Research Project:
Designing AI to Advance Racial Equity

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