University of Maryland College Park
College Park, MD
Katie Shilton, MLIS, PhD, is a professor in the College of Information at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on technology and data ethics. She is a co-PI of the NSF Institute for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Law & Society (TRAILS), and a co-PI of the UMD Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) initiative. She was also recently the PI of the PERVADE project, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include improving online content moderation with human-in-the-loop machine learning techniques; analyzing values in audiology technologies and treatment models; and designing experiential data ethics education. She is the founding co-director of the University of Maryland’s undergraduate major in social data science. Katie received a B.A. from Oberlin College, a Master of Library and Information Science from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA.
WS4 - Ethics Governance: Using IRB Expertise to Critique Computing Research Ethics Governance
Thursday, November 6, 2025
1:00 PM - 4:15 PM ET