Bio: Stephanie Nguyen was named Chief Technology Officer on October 3, 2022, after having served in the role in an acting capacity since October 2021. She brings over a decade of leadership building and designing technical products and services across government, academia, civil society, and the private sector, specializing in human-computer interaction design and user experience research. Prior to her tenure at the FTC, Nguyen worked at the U.S. Digital Service at the White House and as a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nguyen holds an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School, where she studied as a Gleitsman Scholar, and earned her B.A. in Digital Media Theory & Design from the University of Virginia.

Bio: Emiliano Falcon-Morano is the Policy Counsel for the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts. He was born and raised in Argentina, where he earned his first law degree at the University of Buenos Aires and a Master in Administrative Law at Austral University. In the United States, Emiliano earned a Master in Laws (L.L.M.) from the New York University School of Law–where he was awarded the Vanderbilt Medal–and is admitted to the New York bar. At the ACLU of Massachusetts, Emiliano creates legal and policy solutions to issues that arise from private and government use of new technologies such as biometric technologies. His expertise includes issues surrounding data privacy, artificial intelligence, and government surveillance. Emiliano believes in equality, free speech, open internet, respect for privacy, and universal access to services. Emiliano has been featured in Spanish-speaking media (Telemundo, Univision, and CÑN) discussing technology and privacy news.

Bio: Rahul Gupta is a senior science manager at the Alexa-AI team heading initiatives on Responsible AI. Since joining the Alexa organization, he has focused on designing NLU models for scalability and speed.  Some of his more recent research focuses on Trustworthy Machine Learning with emphasis on privacy preserving techniques, fairness and federated learning. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2016 on interpreting non-verbal communications in human interaction. He has published several papers in avenues such as EMNLP, ACL, NAACL, ACM Facct, IEEE-Transactions of affective computing, IEEE-Spoken language Understanding workshop, ICASSP, Interspeech and Elselvier computer speech and language journal. He is also co-inventor on over fifteen patented/patent-pending technologies at Amazon.

Bio: Nina Taft is a Principal Scientist at Google where she leads the Applied Privacy Research group. Nina received her PhD from UC Berkeley, and has worked in industrial research labs since then – at SRI, Sprint Labs, Intel Berkeley Labs, and Technicolor Research – before joining Google.  For many years, Nina worked in the field of networking, focused on Internet traffic modeling and intrusion detection. In 2017 she received the top-10 women in networking IEEE N2Women award.  In the last decade, she has been working on privacy enhancing technologies with a focus on applications of machine learning for privacy. She has been chair of the SIGCOMM, IMC and PAM conferences, has published over 90 papers, holds 10 patents, and currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute.

Bio: Christo Wilson is an Associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He is a founding member of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern and serves as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs in Khoury College. Professor Wilson’s research focuses on online security and privacy, with a specific interest in algorithmic auditing. His work is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a Sloan Fellowship, the Mozilla Foundation, the Knight Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, the Democracy Fund, the Anti Defamation League, the Data Transparency Lab, the European Commission, Google, Pymetrics, Northwestern University, Underwriters Laboratories, and Verisign Labs.