Leilani H. Gilpin
Member of the CalCompute Consortium.
- Institution: UC Santa Cruz
- Title: Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
- Role: AI Safety Researcher & Developer
Background
- She has been an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz since 2021. She was a research scientist at Sony AI (Gilpin ORCID record; Gilpin UCSC homepage).
- She holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (2020), an M.S. from Stanford and a BSc from UC San Diego (Gilpin UCSC homepage).
- Her research is on machines that explain themselves “for diagnosis, accountability, and liability” (Gilpin UCSC homepage).
- She won an AFOSR Young Investigator Program grant in December 2023, and chaired the NeSy 2025 conference (Gilpin UCSC homepage).
- Her lab works on faithful reasoning for “high-stakes use cases” and on AI for law (Gilpin AIEA Lab homepage).