Boris Babic

Boris Babic

First Name: 
Boris
Last Name: 
Babic
Title: 
Assistant Professor | On Leave
Office Location : 
Room 9086, Department of Statistical Sciences, 700 University Ave, Toronto, ON M5G 1X6
Biography : 

I am an assistant professor of Statistical Sciences. I also have a joint appointment in the Department of Philosophy, and I am a faculty affiliate of the Schwartz Reisman Institute. Before joining the University of Toronto, I was an assistant professor at INSEAD, where I remain an occasional visitor, and a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology. I received my PhD from the University and Michigan, Ann Arbor, and my JD from Harvard Law School.

My primary research interests are twofold. I work on:

  1.  Legal, ethical and policy dimensions of artificial intelligence and machine learning (including, for example, questions involving privacy, transparency, and bias of algorithmic systems); and,
  2. Foundational questions in Bayesian inference and decision making (including, for example, aggregating probabilities, selecting and checking models, and loss function optimality).
Personal Website: 
https://borisbabic.com/

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Statistical Theory
  • Probability
  • Bayesian Inference
  • Law and Ethics of AI and Machine Learning
Cross-Appointments: 
Department of Philosophy
Schwartz Reisman Institute

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Meta Description: 
Boris Babic is an Assistant Professor at the U of T Department of Statistical Sciences and the Department of Philosophy.