Jesse Woo

AI/Tech Policy Counsel

   jesse.woo@nyu.edu

Jesse Woo is an AI/Tech Policy Counsel at the Policing Project's Tech Team. He is an attorney and machine learning engineer with a decade of experience working at the intersection of technology, law, and policy. He is also an expert on the governance and use of data in the policing and national security sectors, and at working across disciplines to understand complex socio-technical systems like AI. Jesse has served as a Tech Policy Fellow in the Office of Senator Ron Wyden, a Fulbright scholar on cross-border data and AI issues at Kyoto University in Japan, and a Research Associate on Privacy and Cybersecurity at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has written about data privacy, robotics and drones in the context of smart cities and published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and Connecticut Law Review. He has also been quoted on tech law issues by popular publications such as the Verge and Motherboard.

Jesse holds a masters in computer science from Columbia University and a J.D. from the University of Washington School of Law, where he was the executive articles editor on the Washington Law Review. He received his B.A. in history from U.C. Davis.