Kathleen (Katie) Creel
Assistant Professor, Jointly Appointed with College of Social Sciences and Humanities
- Algorithmic fairness, transparency, and explanation
- Monoculture and homogeneity due to use of AI
- Philosophy of science and science of science
- PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
- MA in Philosophy, Simon Fraser University — Canada
- BA in Computer Science and Philosophy, Williams College
Kathleen Creel is an assistant professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences and the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University, based in Boston.
Her research explores the moral, political, and epistemic implications of machine learning as it is used in automated decision-making and in science. Before joining Northeastern, Creel was the Embedded Ethics fellow in the Center for Ethics in Society and the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. In this role, she worked with the Stanford Computer Science department to embed ethics in the core curriculum. Creel worked as a software engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and subsequently pursued her doctorate in history and philosophy of science from the University of Pittsburgh.
Creel’s research has been recognized with FAccT’s Best Paper Award, IACAP’s Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Science Association’s Ernst Nagel Early Career Scholar Essay Award.