Leah Davis is an Electrical and Computer Engineering PhD Student in the Responsible Autonomous Intelligent Systems Ethics Lab at McGill University.

Through diverse volunteer and industry experiences in AI ethics organizations, engineering education development, and Women in Engineering initiatives, her doctoral research investigates sociotechnical algorithmic auditing practices in collaboration with l’Université du Québec à Montréal and Mila – Institut québécois d’intelligence artificielle. She hopes to contribute to forthcoming AI regulatory and policy movements in safety engineering, particularly in creating accountability mechanisms among actors in the Canadian AI ecosystem.

Watch her three minutes thesis presentation titled “(Re)Pointing the Finger: Procedural Accountability in Humanizing Algorithmic System Evaluation” during an introductory meeting in Saint-Paulin, Quebec.