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Richard Zemel

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Trianthe Dakolias Professor of Engineering and Applied Science; Director, NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence at Columbia University

Zemel helped make fairness a technical design problem through “Fairness Through Awareness,” which formalized the idea that similar people should receive similar outcomes. His broader work spans few-shot and continual learning, robust models and systems that can quantify when their predictions are uncertain.

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Background

Current role
Trianthe Dakolias Professor of Engineering and Applied Science; Director, NSF AI Institute for Artificial and Natural Intelligence
Previously
Professor and NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Machine Learning,
Co-founder and Inaugural Research Director,
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Last editorial review: August 10, 2026