Amy Winecoff
Senior Technologist at Knight-Georgetown Institute
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolAmy Winecoff is a Senior Technologist with a decade of experience at the nexus of AI, ethics, and product development, currently shaping responsible tech strategy at the Knight-Georgetown Institute in Washington, DC. With a PhD in Psychology & Neuroscience from Duke, she blends rigorous empirical methods and qualitative fieldwork—having interviewed 70+ founders and analyzed 150M Reddit posts—to surface practical barriers to ethical design. Her research at Princeton and the Center for Democracy & Technology has influenced federal and international AI policy, contributed to CHI and AIES publications, and informed formal comments to NIST, NTIA, and the European AI Office. Amy translates scholarship into practice by running workshops for startup founders and MBA students, operationalizing values into deployable development practices. She has also led interdisciplinary teams to study alignment tactics like PEFT and developed domain-specific risk taxonomies (e.g., harms to people with eating disorders), showing a rare combination of technical, policy, and clinical sensitivity. Colleagues know her for turning complex research into actionable governance and product interventions that scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology & Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Arts Applications, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Arts Applications at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (5)
simulator10
simulation9
dynamic-content3
python2
scraper2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
amywinecoff/recsys-teaching
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
elucherini/t-recs
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
A simulator for recommender systems
Contributions:29 reviews, 128 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years
simulatorsimulation
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