David Danks

Professor, HDSI Faculty Council Chair



Professor Danks conducts research at the intersection of machine learning, philosophy, and cognitive science. He examines the ethical, psychological, and policy issues around AI and robotics across a range of sectors. He has also developed multiple novel causal discovery algorithms for complex types of observational and experimental data, and has done significant research in computational cognitive science.

Danks received an A.B. in Philosophy from Princeton University, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. He is the recipient of a James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award, as well as an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.