Surya Mattu

Lab Lead

Surya is a data journalist and engineer who has worked at The Markup, ProPublica and Gizmodo’s Special Projects Desk. At The Markup he led teams that built Blacklight, a real-time website privacy inspector, and Citizen Browser, a custom application that collected data from the Facebook newsfeeds of over 3000 volunteers. At Propublica he worked on Machine Bias, a series that highlights how algorithmic systems can be biased and discriminate against people in the housing and criminal justice system. Machine Bias was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Explanatory Journalism

Micha Gorelick

Technology and Reseach Lead

Micha has worked as a machine learning researcher and engineer for The Markup and OCCRP. She was the co-founder of an applied machine learning company, Fast Forward Labs and authored the book “High Performance Python”. She has worked as the lead researcher on a variety of cutting-edge research projects on topics ranging from neural networks for text summarization, probabilistic programming for understanding housing prices and various machine learning approaches for journalism.

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

India Research Lead

Kumar Sambhav is a journalist and social entrepreneur. He is the founder of Land Conflict Watch, an interdisciplinary research organisation in India, and was the co-founder of The Reporters’ Collective, a non-profit investigative-journalism collaborative. He was also an inaugural Artificial Intelligence Accountability Fellow at the Pulitzer Center. Kumar has reported for prime global and Indian news outlets, including Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, Business Standard, Hindustan Times, Down To Earth and The Times of India. For his reporting, Kumar has received the prestigious Red Ink Award, the Press Council of India’s National Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Shriram Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism.