Sharad Goel: Law, Order, & Algorithms

Sharad Goel, professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, discusses how criminal justice reform can be approached using computer science in this recorded webinar, “Law, Order, & Algorithms: A Computational Approach to Criminal Justice Reform". Professor Goel's work focuses on addressing public policy problems with technical innovation. Recent topics include policing practices, including statistical tests for discrimination; fair machine learning, including in automated speech recognition; and democratic governance, including swing voting, polling errors, voter fraud, and political polarization.