Alan Mislove
Interim Executive Director
Alan Mislove is a professor, the senior associate dean for academic affairs in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, and the interim executive director of The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
His research is on algorithmic auditing. He develops methodologies and study the real-world systems that millions of users interact with every day, focusing on issues of algorithmic discrimination, fairness, and privacy. His aim is to enable regulators, policymakers, and everyday people to better understand how these systems work, how they are used and abused, and what impacts they are having on users and society at large. In 2023 and 2024, he served as Deputy US Chief Technology Officer for Privacy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Mislove won the NSF CAREER Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award, a Google Faculty Award, a Facebook Secure the Internet Grant, and the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize. His work has been funded by Amazon Web Services, the Army Research Office, the Data Transparency Lab, Facebook, Google, and the NSF. He has testified before Congress and his work has been covered by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and CBS Evening News.