Rumman Chowdhury

Education Chowdhury completed her undergraduate study in Management Science and Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She finished her PhD whilst working in Silicon Valley. Her main interest for her career and higher educational studies was how data can be used to understand people's bias and ways to evaluate the impact of technology on humanity. and was responsible for coining the term "moral outsourcing". She works with companies on developing ethical governance and algorithms that explain their decisions transparently. She is determined to use AI to improve diversity in recruitment.

Chowdhury, alongside a team of early career researchers at the Alan Turing Institute, developed a Fairness Tool which scrutinises the data that is input to an algorithm and identifies whether certain categories (such as race or gender) may influence the outcome. The tool both identifies and tries to fix bias, enabling organisations to make fairer decisions.

All.ai, Parity and X Institute Chowdhury designed All.ai, a language analysis tool that can monitor and improve the gender balance of speakers in meetings.

In 2020, she founded Parity to bridge the translation gap between risk, legal, and data teams.

She launched the X Institute, a program which teaches refugees about data science and marketing. She delivered a TED talk about humanity in the age of artificial intelligence. META's goal was to study and improve the machine learning systems used within Twitter, this included biased algorithms which may cause harm to the user. Most projects that META teams worked on involved research and data analysis, and the team was largely made up of professors, researchers, and engineers. In 2021, Chowdhury and the META team published an analysis titled Examining algorithmic amplification of political content on Twitter. In November 2022, Chowdhury was one of many Twitter employees who were laid off at short notice after Elon Musk's takeover of the company. In 2018, she was named one of five people who are shaping AI by Forbes. She was acknowledged by The Business Journals as one of the Bay Area's top 40 Under 40. She has also been inducted into the British Royal Society of the Arts (RSA) to celebrate people who have made progress in social challenges.