Rumman Chowdhury
Founder of Parity
A data scientist and responsible-AI leader who coined the term "moral outsourcing" and led Twitter's ML ethics team.
Biography
Rumman Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi American data scientist and business founder. She studied management science and political science at MIT, earned a master's in statistics and quantitative methods at Columbia University and a doctorate in political science at UC San Diego.
She joined Accenture in 2017 and led its work on responsible artificial intelligence, where she coined the term "moral outsourcing". With early-career researchers at the Alan Turing Institute she developed a fairness tool that checks whether categories such as race or gender influence an algorithm's outcome. She founded Parity in 2020 and, from February 2021 to November 2022, directed Twitter's Machine Learning Ethics, Transparency and Accountability team, whose analysis examined algorithmic amplification of political content. She was named by Forbes in 2018 as one of five people shaping AI.
Notable contributions
Led Twitter's ML Ethics, Transparency and Accountability team
Directed the META team from February 2021 to November 2022, which published an analysis of algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter.
Led responsible AI at Accenture
Led Accenture's responsible AI work from 2017 and coined the term "moral outsourcing".
Founded Parity
Founded Parity in 2020 to bridge the translation gap between risk, legal and data teams.