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Sean McGregor

PhD, Machine Learning -

Working groupExpert Group on AI Incidents
Working groupExpert Group on AI Risk & Accountability
Stakeholder TypeAcademia
ONE AI Member

Sean McGregor is a machine learning safety researcher and founding director with the Digital Safety Research Institute at the UL Research Institutes. Prior to joining Underwriters Laboratories, Dr. McGregor launched the AI Incident Database while training edge neural network models for the neural accelerator startup Syntiant. With an applications-centered research program spanning reinforcement learning for wildfire suppression and deep learning for heliophysics, Sean has covered a wide range of safety critical domains. Outside his day jobs, Sean’s open source development work has earned media attention in the Atlantic, Der Spiegel, Wired, Venture Beat, Vice, and O’Reilly while his technical publications have appeared in a variety of machine learning, HCI, ethics, and application-centered proceedings.

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