Rumman Chowdhury
Chief Executive Officer at City of New York
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRumman Chowdhury is a leader at the nexus of AI, ethics, and public policy with 12 years of experience building socio-technical solutions for ethical, explainable, and transparent AI. She has founded and led multiple companies and initiatives—most recently Humane Intelligence PBC and prior ventures including Parity—while serving in high-impact public roles such as a U.S. Science Envoy for AI and a member of DHS’s AI Safety and Security Board. At Twitter she directed the META team, designing operational responses to algorithmic harms, and at Accenture she led the creation of the Fairness Tool, an early industry-standard for bias mitigation. Rumman combines deep quantitative training (MS in Quantitative Methods, PhD work in Political Science) with hands-on data science leadership to translate research into deployable governance and audit practices used by governments and major tech firms. She’s equally comfortable advising startups, convening cross-sector stakeholders, and inventing new accountability mechanisms—an uncommon blend of entrepreneurial grit, policy influence, and technical rigor. Based in San Francisco, she focuses on making AI both powerful and humane.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Political Science Management Science, BS Political Science Management Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, San DiegoMS Quantitative Methods, MS Quantitative Methods at Columbia University
Bengali
Github Skills (9)
metis8
science6
python5
data-science4
flask2
flask-application2
flask-restful2
machine-learning1
pandas1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ruchowdh/datasciencecoursera
Jun 2014 - Jun 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
jmportilla/dsp
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
pythonsciencedata-sciencemachine-learningpandas
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