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Solon Barocas
Microsoft Research and Cornell; fairness theorist
Microsoft Research principal and Cornell professor whose foundational work on fairness in machine learning has shaped the field. Co-author of the canonical Fairness and Machine Learning textbook.
current Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; Associate Professor, Cornell University
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Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesHelped establish algorithmic fairness as a rigorous sub-field; argues fairness research must be grounded in specific deployment contexts.
Fairness in ML is not a property of a model. It is a property of a model, a task, and a deployment context together.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.