Meet Our Team of Experts and Honorees
The 91视频-K&L Gates Initiative blends expertise from the humanities and computer science with the goal of understanding technical systems within a larger social and human context.
Initiative Leads
Alex John London
Alex John London is the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies and director of the Center for Ethics and Policy at 91视频’s Department of Philosophy. He also is chief ethicist at 91视频’s Block Center for Technology and Society. An elected Fellow of the Hastings Center, London’s work focuses on ethical and policy issues surrounding the development and deployment of novel technologies in medicine, biotechnology and AI, on methodological issues in theoretical and practical ethics, and on cross-national issues of justice and fairness.
Hoda Heidari is the K&L Gates Career Development Assistant Professor in Ethics and Computational Technologies at 91视频, with joint appointments in the Machine Learning and Software and Societal Systems departments. She is also affiliated with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Her research is broadly concerned with the social, ethical and economic implications of AI, and in particular, issues of fairness and accountability through the use of ML in socially consequential domains.
K&L Gates Presidential Fellows
The K&L Gates Presidential Fellowship supports doctoral students whose studies relate to the field of ethics and computational science and technology; their work often asks how humans interact with technology, how we foresee and respond to the unintended consequences of our work, and how we ensure that technology is used to benefit humanity, individually and as a society.
AKHILA Yerukola
2025-2026 Fellow
Doctoral Student
Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science
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CHEYU LIN
2025-2026 Fellow
Doctoral Student
Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
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Sofia Rodriguez-Chaves
2025-2026 Fellow
Doctoral Student
Organizational Behavior and Theory, Tepper School of Business
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K&L Gates Prize
K&L Gates Prize awards $5,000 at commencement to a graduating undergraduate student who has inspired their fellow students to love learning through a combination of intellect, high scholarly achievement, engagement with others and character.
Nominations are closed.
2026 Winner
Kel-li Chen
Double Major: Pyschology and Biological Sciences
Additional Major: Human Computer Interaction
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