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Roya Pakzad is listed as Founder of Taraaz, Technology & Human Rights Researcher and Advocate at Taraaz, based in San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at columbia.edu and a matched LinkedIn profile for Roya Pakzad.
Roya Pakzad previously worked as Founder and Director at Taraaz and Practitioner Fellow in Data and Democracy at University Of Virginia. Roya Pakzad holds Master’S Degree, Human Rights Studies from Columbia University In The City Of New York.
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Roya Pakzad is a technology and human rights researcher and advocate, as well as an electrical engineer. She leverages her multidisciplinary background to advise tech industry leaders, civil society organizations, governments, and philanthropic organizations on issues such as human rights impact assessments of digital products and services including responsible AI design and deployment, and the development of guiding tools to assess and prevent potential adverse impacts of their digital services.Her work has been featured in news and press outlets including Wired, Financial Times, BBC, CNN, and Reuters. It has also been recognized by various awards and fellowships from esteemed institutions such as the Karsh Institute of Democracy and the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia, the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the University of San Francisco, Stanford University's Human-Centered AI, the Rockefeller Foundation, Twitter Engineering, and Meta.📝 Newsletter: https://royapakzad.substack.com/
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I'm the founder and director at Taraaz, a research and advocacy organization working at the intersection of Technology and Human Rights.At Taraaz, we work with civil society organizations, academic institutions, technology companies, and government agencies to carry out projects including:▫️ Conducting Human rights impacts assessments informed by the UN.
As a Practitioner Data and Democracy Fellow at the Karsh Institute of Democracy and the School of Data Science at the University of Virginia, I will develop an open-source tool to enhance the transparency of US government AI procurement practices. The goal of this tool is to define transparency criteria, extract relevant procurement data, and enable more.
I serve as an affiliated scholar at UC Berkeley's CITRIS Policy Lab. The CITRIS Policy Lab's mission is to "support interdisciplinary technology policy research that encourages development and deployment of technology in the interest of society." Areas of research interest include computational propaganda, inclusive AI, and digital inclusion.
Stanford, California
I research human rights implications of new technologies at Stanford Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi). My current focus is mostly on social and human rights impacts of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. To come up with impactful and practical digital policy, I see myself as a translator between technologists, human rights.
Rikers Island, Queens, NY
As part of the Justice-in-Education initiative at Rikers Island jail, I conduct a Women’s Empowerment Workshop teaching computer skills, resume writing, and interview skills to young incarcerated women.
Greater New York City Area
Austin, Texas Area
Assisted in the Design for Testability (DFT) of AMD's Semi-Custom SoC (System on a Chip) for Sony’s Playstation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One.
My research focus was on the impact of technology on human rights. Some of the topics that I have worked on are: the potential impact of.
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Roya Pakzad holds Master’S Degree, Human Rights Studies from Columbia University In The City Of New York.
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