Co-Directors
Fred Oswald, Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Fred Oswald is an industrial-organizational psychologist and current Chair of the Board on Human Systems Integration (BOHSI) at the National Academies, where they recently published a highly downloaded report, Human-AI Teaming: State of the Art and Research Needs (Mica Endsley, Chair). He is a current Member of the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC) which advises the President and the Secretary of Commerce on a wide range of topics relevant to AI and national prosperity. With consistent PI and co-PI funding from NSF, NIH, and other agencies, his core research addresses the role of AI and machine learning in work and workforce settings.
Elizabeth Roberto, Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Elizabeth Roberto is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and the founding co-Director of the Center for Computational Insight on Inequality and Society at Rice University. Dr. Roberto has broad research interests in social and spatial inequality, a substantive focus on residential segregation, and methodological expertise in computational social science and quantitative methods. Her research uses innovative methods to examine the complex relationship between the social and built environment of cities. Dr. Roberto received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Yale University. She was awarded a James S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Studying Complex Systems, which supported her postdoctoral research at Princeton University. Her research has also been supported by the American Sociological Association and the National Academies.