Bio

Serena Booth is a new Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Brown University. She was previously an AAAS AI Policy Fellow with the U.S. Senate, where she worked on AI policy questions for the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. In her research, Serena studies how people write specifications for AI systems and how people assess whether AI systems are successful in learning from specifications. She received her PhD at MIT CSAIL in 2023, and she graduated from Harvard College in 2016. In between undergrad and grad school, Serena worked as an Associate Product Manager at Google. Her research has been supported by CIFAR as an Azrieli Global Scholar, by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, and by the UK AI Security Institute. Serena has also been recognized as a Rising Star in EECS (2022), as an MIT Presidential Fellow, and with an NSF GRFP.