My name is Dasha. I'm an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at George Mason University and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Previously, I was a 2023-2024 fellow at the Berkman Klein Center and a postdoctoral fellow in the Embedded EthiCS program at Harvard University. I received my PhD in History & Philosophy of Science from the University of Pittsburgh, where I was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow, and I hold a BS in computer science from the University of Utah. 

My research critically interrogates the social impacts of algorithmic decision-making systems in the US criminal legal system. I draw on methods from feminist philosophy of science, critical data studies, and the qualitative social sciences. In 2024, I organized Prediction and Punishment: Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Carceral AI, which brought together scholars and activists from around the world to address technologies designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control human beings. More broadly, I am interested in how technologies shape (and are shaped by) their social contexts. I have also co-organized efforts to ban facial recognition and predictive policing in the city of Pittsburgh.