Dr. Margaret Mitchell is a computer scientist and Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face, with over two decades of research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, ethics, and clinical technology. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Aberdeen and a Master’s in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington.
Her clinical and health AI work spans assistive technology and medical language processing. From 2005 to 2012, she worked at Oregon Health & Science University, applying natural language processing to detect neurological disorders and developing augmentative communication tools for non-verbal individuals. In 2014, she co-founded the annual Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology workshops and spearheaded projects to assist clinicians in mental health diagnoses.
She later led development of Seeing AI at Microsoft, a pioneering computer vision application that describes the visual world for blind and low-vision users, recognised with an award from the American Foundation for the Blind.
Dr. Mitchell has published over 100 papers on natural language generation, computer vision, assistive technology, and AI ethics, and holds multiple patents in AI development. She is widely known for pioneering Model Cards, a now widely-adopted framework for transparent AI reporting, and for her work mitigating unwanted AI biases.
She previously founded and co-led Google’s Ethical AI group and has been recognised by TIME as one of the most influential people in the world.
