Alice Xiang

Alice Xiang is a lawyer, statistician, and Global Head of AI Governance and Lead Research Scientist at Sony Group Corporation, and was named by Nature as one of ten scientists to watch in 2026. Xiang previously worked at the Partnership on AI.

Education and career Xiang earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a master's in development economics from the University of Oxford, and both a bachelor's in economics and a master's in statistics from Harvard.

In 2021, Women in AI Ethics included Xiang as one of their 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics. Xiang received the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum in 2025, for her essay Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who's the Fairest of Them All?. In 2026, she was recognized by AI Magazine as one of the Top 100 Women in AI.

Xiang is Global Head of AI Governance and Lead Research Scientist at Sony Group Corporation, and was named by Nature as one of ten scientists to watch in 2026. Xiang led the development of a dataset of more than 10,000 ethical images of humans, named the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), which was collected in a manner "that reflects diversity, mitigates bias, protects intellectual-property rights and includes consent". FHIBE was recognized as one of Fast Company's World Changing Ideas for 2026.

She has authored op-eds in Fortune and Time about her research on skin tone bias and ethical data curation for AI.

Previously she worked for the Partnership on AI, where she was head of fairness, transparency, and accountability research. Xiang also held the role of visiting scholar at Tsinghua University. Xiang was General Chair of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

Selected works

"Being "seen" versus "mis-seen": Tensions between privacy and fairness in computer vision". 16 February 2022. Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. "Reconciling legal and technical approaches to algorithmic bias". Fall 2020. Tennessee Law Review.