Alice Xiang
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Alice Xiang | |
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| Awards | Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford, Yale University, Harvard University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Sony AI, Partnership on AI |
Alice Xiang is a lawyer, statistician and global head of AI governance at Sony AI, and was named by Nature as one of ten scientists to watch in 2026.[1] Xiang previously worked at the Partnership on AI.
Xiang studied at Yale Law School, and earned a master's in development economics from the University of Oxford, and both a bachelor's in economics and a master's in statistics from Harvard.[2]
In 2021, Women in AI Ethics included Xiang as one of their 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.[3] Xiang received the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award from the Future of Privacy Forum in 2025, for her essay Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Who's the Fairest of Them All?.[4]
Xiang is global head of AI governance at Sony AI, and was named by Nature as one of ten scientists to watch in 2026.[1][5] Xiang led the development of a dataset of more than 10,000 ethical images of humans, named the Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), which was collected in a manner "that reflects diversity, mitigates bias, protects intellectual-property rights and includes consent".[6]
Previously she worked for the Partnership on AI, where she was head of fairness, transparency, and accountability research. Xiang also held the role of visiting scholar at Tsinghua University. Xiang was chair of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.[7]
