Dr. Dasha Pruss is an assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at George Mason University and a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center. Previously, she was a 2023-2024 fellow at the Berkman Klein Center and a postdoctoral fellow in the Embedded EthiCS program at Harvard. Her research critically interrogates the social impacts of algorithmic decision-making systems in the US criminal legal system. Her work draw on methods from feminist philosophy of science, critical data studies, and the qualitative social sciences. In 2024, she organized Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI, which brought together scholars and activists from around the world to address technologies designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control human beings. She is also an activist and co-organized efforts to ban police use of facial recognition and predictive policing in the city of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Pruss received her PhD in history & philosophy of science from the University of Pittsburgh, and she holds a BS in computer science from the University of Utah. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy.
