Summary
Dasha Pruss is an interdisciplinary philosopher and technologist with a decade of experience at the intersection of ethics, computer science, and public-facing research. Currently an Assistant Professor and a Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center, she develops and teaches embedded tech-ethics curricula and studies ethical dimensions of AI, emotion recognition, and open-source practices. Her background ranges from software engineering internships and data-visualization research to bioinformatics and clinical variant analysis, giving her a rare fluency in both technical methods and philosophical analysis. She has published empirical work using topic modeling on social media and contributed to collaborative projects in biomedical and computational settings, reflecting a knack for translating complex domain expertise into teachable modules and policy-relevant insights. Based in Chicago, she combines classroom leadership with active research and fellowship experience that bridge academia, industry, and public-interest technology.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
First year of PhD program, Information Science, First year of PhD program, Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, History and Philosophy of Science at University of Pittsburgh
English, Spanish, Russian