Monica Lopez

Monica Lopez

One of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2023 and a recognized polymath by The Imagination Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Monica Lopez is the Co-Founder & CEO of Cognitive Insights for Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Lopez is a serial entrepreneur advising on the risk management and governance of emerging technologies and artificial intelligence from a human-centered perspective across multiple industries. She is also a Senior Executive Fellow of The Digital Economist, a Responsible AI Expert for the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, a Jury Member for the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and a longtime Fellow of Salzburg Global. Prior, she was a photographer and writer, director and producer of theater and film, merging her artistic work with her research in the neuroscience of creativity through her company, La Petite Noiseuse Productions. Speaking engagements include the National Academy of Sciences, National Geographic, IS&T Electronic Imaging Symposium, IEEE Women in Engineering, AutoSens, BioTalk, Salzburg Global, Executive Women’s Forum, American Health Law Association, Bankers Association for Finance and Trade, Sundance Film Festival, The Atlantic, The Digital Economist, and Top Tier Impact at the World Economic Forum. Latest publications include peer-reviewed original research in the Journal of AI Law and Regulation, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, and The Digital Economist. Dr. Lopez holds a PhD in Cognitive Science from the Johns Hopkins University where she is also a teaching professor in the Whiting School of Engineering.

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