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Alex Chohlas-Wood

@alexchohlaswood.com
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Assistant professor at NYU interested in computational public policy and the criminal justice system. Co-direct @comppolicylab.bsky.social.📍NYC 🏳️‍🌈 alexchohlaswood.com

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Council on Criminal Justice @counciloncj.org · 21/04/2026
For @brookings.edu, three members of our Task Force on AI wrote about the need for state-level regulation of AI use for criminal justice. More 👇 from @alexchohlaswood.com @chiraagbains.bsky.social, and Katie Kinsey (@policingproject.bsky.social) www.brookings.edu/articles/sta...
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States can—and should—regulate AI in criminal justice | Brookings
States should set guardrails around AI use in criminal justice, but an executive order from President Trump threatens to chill such efforts.
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 19/04/2026
In an age of rapidly evolving AI, we are *just* starting to learn how we can properly regulate these powerful new technologies. While many new regulations will be well-intended, we won't know what really works until we try many different approaches.
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 01/04/2026
.@counciloncj.org just released a comprehensive guide to help justice agencies make the right decision about whether and how to adopt AI. This guide reflects many productive discussions we've had on the Task Force for AI over the last year—kudos to CCJ for distilling this into a practical guide!
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Council on Criminal Justice @counciloncj.org · 04/03/2026
How can AI improve the New York Police Department and the justice system as a whole? A perspective from CCJ Task Force on AI member @alexchohlaswood.com in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social explores the potential opportunities, and risks, of the new technology: www.vitalcitynyc.org/how-to-deplo...
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How To Deploy AI To Improve Policing in New York
Powerful new technology has the potential to improve the City’s justice system, but to get it right, the NYPD has to address serious risks.
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 23/02/2026
Police departments nationwide are racing to adopt AI. Yet the NYPD hasn't permanently adopted a new AI tool since 2016.* That stagnation is a choice. And it's NYC's most vulnerable residents who pay the price. In @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social this week, I lay out a better path forward. (Link below)
A 911 call dispatcher working in front of five open screens. CC By 2.0. Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/143513894@N04/27188584211
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 30/10/2025
In January, the NYPD said it would put two officers on every late-night subway car in New York City. How can we know whether the NYPD kept its promise?
Police officers face away from the camera toward a New York City subway train. The photo is taken through a fare gate. Photo credit: Metropolitan Transit Authority via CC 2.0.
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Computational Policy Lab at Harvard Kennedy School @comppolicylab.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The Computational Policy Lab is growing! We’re hiring software engineers to build technology that makes government, education, and social programs more fair, effective, and data-driven. Know someone who'd be a great fit? Learn more: careers.harvard.edu/job/software...
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Software Engineer
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 01/10/2025
Have you ever forgotten an important date—like a birthday for a loved one? Now imagine if forgetting meant ending up in jail. Two years ago, we ran a randomized experiment that found that text message reminders reduce jail stays for missed court dates by over 20%.
A hand holding a smartphone displaying a court date reminder on screen.
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 03/09/2025
The ASA's Law & Justice Statistics committee is hosting an upcoming webinar featuring George Mohler. Join us on September 30 from 1–1:30pm ET! Register here: amstat.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 04/08/2025
Calling all professors—we're enrolling new courses in our ongoing randomized study of AI in education! Get free access to a customized virtual tutor, and receive an honorarium at the end of the semester if you participate. Details below.
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 29/07/2025
Come join us and teach a great class this fall!
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 21/07/2025
Great article about our work using generative AI to help prosecutors make race-blind charging decisions across California and beyond: www.law360.com/articles/235...
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Seven Months In, Race-Blind Charging Faces Test In Calif. - Law360
In January, California adopted race-blind charging as a statewide policy, after a law passed in 2022 went into effect. Now, seven months into the program's statewide rollout, race-blind charging is sh...
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 23/01/2025
Job alert! We're hiring a clinical (teaching-based) Assistant Professor of Applied Statistics for Social Science Research at NYU! Application review begins on February 10, and the position would start on September 1. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/162021
Two students collaborating on a plot on a whiteboard.
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Hannah Li @hannahli.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Yes to evaluating the *outcomes* of these systems rather than as a standalone algorithm! This is something that's been bothering me for a while about ML assisted decisions
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 08/01/2025
NEW in Management Science! My coauthors and I came up with a new consequentialist approach to designing equitable algorithms. Instead of imposing fairness criteria on an algorithm (like equal false negative rates), we aim for good outcomes. More in the 🧵 below! (1/)
A screenshot of the first page of our paper, Learning to Be Fair, showing the title and abstract.
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Work at NYUAD @nyuad-oaa.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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Madison Coots @madisoncoots.com · 05/12/2024
The use of race in clinical risk models is heavily debated. While race-aware models can be more accurate, some are concerned about reinforcing racialized views of medicine. In our paper, we offer a new perspective on this debate. 🧵👇https://annals.org/aim/article/doi/10.7326/M23-3166
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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
In AI research, more and more of the action seems to be taking place above the foundation model layer and is closer to applications / people / societal impact. This kind of research strongly benefits from interdisciplinary thinking (though not all AI researchers have recognized the shift yet!)
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Vital City @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We built a starter pack (a work in progress) of some people who know a lot about New York City policy — and assorted others of interest. go.bsky.app/FCDEhhc
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Joe Cimpian @handle.invalid · 21/11/2024
🔬 Major new findings on STEM gender gaps: Looking across institutions over time, physics, engineering & computer science (PECS) show stark divides—gaps are closing at selective colleges but widening elsewhere. w/ @joalkhafajiking.bsky.social [<--🌟 on the job market 😉] www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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An institution-level analysis of gender gaps in STEM over time
Gender gaps in engineering and computer science narrow at math-selective schools and widen in others
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Christopher Barrie @cbarrie.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
PSA: to post to CSS feed, now use "compsocsci" rather css (we were getting all mixed in with the comicssky people ! bsky.app/profile/cbar...
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Sharad Goel @5harad.com · 21/11/2024
Instructors at 2- and 4-year colleges! Give your students free access to a virtual tutor optimized for learning by taking part in our study on using AI to improve education. Instructors receive a $1,000 honorarium. Sign up by Dec. 16! pingpong.hks.harvard.edu/eduaccess
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PingPong 🏓
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 17/11/2024
If you want to be rewarded with a surprise when your R script finishes running, try adding this at the end:
This shows a snippet of R code that says "beepr::beep(8)".
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 01/11/2024
One month left to apply to our new PhD program in statistics and computational social science. Come join me and my terrific colleagues in the heart of New York City!
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PhD, Statistics and Computational Social Science
Learn statistical, computational, and social science theory and practice to address problems of social importance in public health, education, criminal justice, and other domains.
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 22/11/2023
The Stanford Report just featured our research on using automated reminders to reduce pretrial incarceration — alongside two other terrific Stanford Impact Labs funded efforts thinking about how to achieve both research impact and social impact!
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Stanford Impact Labs applies research insights to society’s most pernicious problems - Stanford Re...
Stanford Impact Labs is taking a collaborative approach to address some of the biggest issues facing the world and society today.
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 11/10/2023
We are working on two new experiments at the Santa Clara Public Defender Office. Check out this piece from Stanford Impact Labs to learn more! I'm so glad my colleague Sarah at the public defender was included to explain why this research is important to her. impact.stanford.edu/article/can-...
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Can Technology Play a Role in Reducing Pretrial Incarceration?
With funding from Stanford Impact Labs, Stanford's Computational Policy Lab partners with the Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office to test the effectiveness of text message reminders for court ...
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 07/10/2023
I forgot to add a #cssky tag! 💙🌌
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Alex Chohlas-Wood @alexchohlaswood.com · 06/10/2023
In a new randomized experiment at the Santa Clara County Public Defender Office, my colleagues and I found that text message reminders reduce *incarceration* for missed court dates by over 20%! More in the 🧵 below. alexchohlaswood.com/assets/paper... 1/11
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