Alexandra Wood is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Policy, and Society in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University.
She teaches core courses in AI policy, governance, and social impacts in the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence program. Additionally, she serves as adjunct faculty at Brandeis University and affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Her research seeks to advance the co-design of law and computer science for the governance of emerging technologies and sociotechnical systems.
She is a co-recipient of the 2019 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies for work introducing a framework for bridging computer science and legal approaches to privacy. Previously, she held appointments as a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, fellow at the Center for Reliable Information Systems & Cyber Security at Boston University, and visiting scholar at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of California, Berkeley. Earlier in her career, she served as a legal fellow in the Office of U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and law clerk at the Center for Democracy & Technology and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. She holds a law degree from The George Washington University Law School, a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Reed College.
