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Seth Neel
Born1993 (age 30–31)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
University of Pennsylvania
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
Artificial Intelligence
ThesisTowards Ethical Algorithms: New Algorithms for Fairness and Privacy (2020)
Doctoral advisorMichael Kearns
Aaron Roth

Seth Neel is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.[1] At Harvard University[2] he is also affiliated with Department of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and is Co-Director of the Trustworthy A.I. Lab at Harvard.[3] Neel's research interests include differential privacy, algorithmic fairness, machine unlearning,[4] and adversarial machine learning. Outside of academia, Neel is a co-founder of Welligence Energy Analytics,[5] a market intelligence firm focused on the global energy industry.

Biography

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Neel attended The Wheeler School in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from Harvard College in 2015. At Harvard he studied Mathematics, completing Math 55, and was a member of the Men's Squash Team.[6] In 2020, Neel obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where his thesis "Towards Ethical Machine Learning: New Algorithms for Fairness and Privacy" was advised by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth.[7] In 2018 Neel co-founded Welligence Energy Analytics with Ross Lubetkin and Ivan Cima, serving as the first Chief Technology Officer.[8] Neel joined the Harvard faculty in 2021.[9]

Awards

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In 2019, Neel was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 List in the Energy category for co-founding Welligence.[10][11] In 2022, Neel was part of a winning team of researchers in the U.S.-U.K. Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Prize Challenge.[12][13]

References

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  1. ^ "Seth Neel - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School".
  2. ^ "Seth Viren Neel | Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences".
  3. ^ "Trustworthy AI Lab".
  4. ^ "Axios Science: Machine forgetting". Axios. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  5. ^ https://welligence.com/
  6. ^ "Seth Neel - 2012-13 - Men's Squash". Harvard University. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  7. ^ Neel, Seth (2020-01-01). Towards Ethical Machine Learning: New Algorithms For Fairness And Privacy (Thesis). University of Pennsylvania.
  8. ^ "Welligence - Contacts, Employees, Board Members, Advisors & Alumni". Crunchbase. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  9. ^ "New Faculty Profiles: Seth Neel". Harvard Business School. 2021-11-24. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  10. ^ "Seth Neel". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  11. ^ Ulrich, Karl. "The Future Of Entrepreneurship Is Students". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  12. ^ "US-UK PETs Prize Challenge". NIST. 2023-05-09.
  13. ^ "At Summit for Democracy, the United States and the United Kingdom Announce Winners of Challenge to Drive Innovation in Privacy-enhancing Technologies That Reinforce Democratic Values | OSTP". The White House. 2023-03-31. Retrieved 2024-12-14.