Deirdre K. Mulligan, a Data & Society advisor, is a professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, a faculty director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, a co-organizer of the Algorithmic Fairness and Opacity Working Group, an affiliated faculty on the Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity and a faculty advisor for its AI Policy Hub, and a faculty advisor to the CITRIS Policy Lab. Her research explores legal and technical means of protecting values such as privacy, freedom of expression, and fairness in sociotechnical systems.  

Mulligan served as principal deputy US chief technology officer at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office (NAIIO), in the Biden-Harris administration. At OSTP, Mulligan led the team working to advance technology and data to benefit all Americans. Under her leadership, the tech team leveraged technology and data to equitably deliver services, brought technology and data expertise to federal policy formation and implementation, and ensured that America led the world in values-driven technological research and innovation.