Maia Hamin
Maia Hamin is interested in how we inform and design policy that incentivizes the development of beneficial and values-aligned computing technology.
As a full-stack engineer on the Privacy and Civil Liberties team at Palantir, she witnessed how good data and good technology are critical to the efficiency and stability of our most important institutions -- and how technology regulation was key in making the privacy- and governance-enhancing tools she built a competitive differentiator rather than a cost center. As co-lead of an internal program teaching engineers to design for privacy-protective data use, she learned how education and information can empower practitioners to build more ethical and accountable products.
During her BS in Computer Science at Princeton, she designed curricula and presentations for CS education and equity initiatives like the INTERFACE discussion group and AI4All summer camp program, built tools to create data assets for policy-relevant research in the Center for Information Technology Policy, and developed models of human cognitive processes in the Neuroscience Department.
She’s a firsthand beneficiary of the way computing technology offers new modes of creation and methods for understanding the world around us -- and a believer in the fact that achieving its full potential will require policy informed by data and by our shared values.
Maia is serving with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and working on issues related to privacy, cybersecurity, and the oversight and transparency of data use.