Ryan Calo

Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor, University of Washington School of Law

Ryan Calo is the Lane Powell and D. Wayne Gittinger Professor at the University of Washington School of Law. He is a founding co-director, with Batya Friedman and Tadayoshi Kohno, of the interdisciplinary UW Tech Policy Lab and, with Chris Coward, Emma Spiro, Kate Starbird, and Jevin West, the UW Center for an Informed Public. Calo holds adjunct appointments at the University of Washington Information School and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.

Calo’s research on law and emerging technology appears in leading law reviews (California Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Columbia Law Review) and technical publications (MIT Press, Nature, Artificial Intelligence) and is frequently referenced by the national media. His work has been translated into at least four languages. Calo has testified three times before the United States Senate and has organized events on behalf of the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, and the White House during the Obama Administration. He has been a speaker at the President Obama’s Frontiers Conference, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and NPR’s Weekend in Washington. Full bio here.

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