Jessie Smith
Data Scientist Responsible AI Trust & Safety
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJessie Smith is a data scientist and PhD candidate specializing in responsible AI, trust and safety, and the ethics of machine learning with 11 years of industry and research experience. Currently leading responsible AI efforts at Spotify, she designs and evaluates interventions for platform safety and fairness-informed recommender systems. Her work bridges qualitative and quantitative methods—from interviewing practitioners and co-designing ethics playbooks to building evaluation scripts for generative AI harms at Adobe and AI2. Jessie co-founded The Radical AI Podcast, translating complex ethical debates into accessible conversations that reached over 100,000 downloads, and has published peer-reviewed research on operationalizing fairness in industry. Trained as a software engineer at Cal Poly and grounded in moral philosophy, she uniquely blends technical rigor with humanities-informed ethical reasoning to address value tensions in multistakeholder systems. Colleagues describe her as a connector who turns interdisciplinary insight into pragmatic, usable tools for safer AI.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Park City High SchoolCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis ObispoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Colorado Boulder
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
minimize8
recommender6
loops6
python5
machine-learning4
react-redux3
data-science3
training-data3
redux2
facebook2
react2
mvc2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jesmith14/FairnessFeedback
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
The repo that holds the code for the ongoing study assessing whether fairness metrics can help minimize unwanted feedback loops in certain multistakeholder recommender systems.
Contributions:23 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
loopsrecommenderongoingmachine-learningrecommender-systems
jesmith14/personal-sentiment-analysis
Sep 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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