Deirdre K. Mulligan

Deirdre K. Mulligan is a professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, a faculty director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, a co-organizer of the Algorithmic Fairness & Opacity Group, an affiliated faculty on the Hewlett-funded Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and a faculty advisor for its AI Policy Hub, and a faculty advisor to the CITRIS Policy Lab. Mulligan’s research explores legal and technical means of protecting values such as privacy, freedom of expression, and fairness in sociotechnical systems. Mulligan served as the principal deputy U.S. chief technology officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO) in the Biden-Harris administration. She previously served as staff counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology. She received a J.D. from Georgetown Law School and a B.A. from Smith College.