Saiph Savage

Saiph Savage is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Civic AI Lab at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Her research develops intelligent civic technologies to combat misinformation, organize collective action, and empower gig and rural workers to access better jobs, combining AI with human-centered design. She has collaborated with governments and authored policy briefs through the Federation of American Scientists’ accelerator program.

Previously, Savage worked at Intel Labs, Microsoft Bing, and Stanford’s Crowd Research initiative, and has taught at West Virginia University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Washington. Her work has been published in top venues including ACM CHI, CSCW, AAAI ICWSM, and the Web Conference, and featured by the BBC, The Economist, and The New York Times.

A recipient of UN and NSF grants, the Google Anita Borg Scholarship, and MIT Technology Review’s “35 Innovators Under 35” honor, Savage also serves as a Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a technical advisor to Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a member of ACM SIGCHI’s Latin America Committee.