Sarah Dean, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, has received an AI2050 Early Career Fellowship from Schmidt Sciences. 

Dean will receive the funding over two years to support her efforts to develop tools that prevent unanticipated negative consequences of large-scale AI systems, like chatbots and personal recommendation systems.

"I'm thrilled to receive this award, both for the research it will enable me to carry out with my students and postdocs, and because I'm excited to join such an impressive cohort of AI2050 fellows," Dean said.

Schmidt Sciences' AI2050 program invites scientists to imagine a world in the year 2050, in which AI has helped solve global challenges and benefited humanity. Their Early Career Fellows program supports researchers who are working to develop exactly these kinds of AI applications, especially those that are ambitious, multidisciplinary and difficult to fund. 

Dean is among 20 Early Career Fellows selected this year. 

Read the full story on the Cornell Bowers CIS website.