Shazeda Ahmed is a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. She received her Ph.D. at the University of California-Berkeley’s School of Information. 

She was a pre-doctoral fellow at Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), and she has previously worked as a researcher for Upturn, the Mercator Institute for China Studies, the Citizen Lab, and the AI Now Institute.

Shazeda’s graduate research focused on how tech firms and the Chinese government are collaborating on the country’s social credit system. Her additional work investigates perceptions of algorithmic discrimination and emotion recognition technologies in China, challenges in courtroom automation, and the epistemic culture of the AI safety subfield.

Shazeda’s work has been featured in outlets including the Financial Times, WIRED, the South China Morning Post, and Logic magazine.