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Olga Russakovsky is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, with additional affiliations at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning and the Center for Information Technology Policy. She serves as Associate Director of the Princeton AI Lab and chairs the Board of Directors for AI4ALL, the nonprofit she co-founded in 2017.
Her research integrates computer vision with machine learning, human-computer interaction, and fairness/transparency in AI systems. She leads the Visual AI Lab, focusing on developing intelligent systems that understand the visual world while addressing societal impacts of technology.
Dr. Russakovsky is a prominent advocate for diversity in AI. She co-founded multiple educational initiatives including:
- Stanford AI4ALL (originally SAILORS, 2015) for high school girls
- Princeton AI4ALL (2018) for underrepresented racial/ethnic groups
- AI4ALL nonprofit (2017) to cultivate diverse AI leadership
- AI4ALL Open Learning (free K-12 AI curriculum)
- College Pathways program for undergraduate inclusion
She has influenced policy through congressional engagement and media outreach, with featured coverage in MIT Technology Review, TheAtlantic, Wired, and EdWeek addressing AI's diversity crisis.
