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. In 2023-2024, I was a 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 use of algorithmic decision-making systems in the US criminal legal system. I draw on methods from critical data studies, feminist philosophy of science, 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. You can find the resulting report on carceral AI here. I have also co-organized efforts to ban facial recognition and predictive policing in the city of Pittsburgh.