Serena Booth

Serena Booth is the Simons Institute's Spring 2025 Law and Society Fellow, and an incoming Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Brown University. She was previously an AAAS AI Policy Fellow with the U.S. Senate, where she worked on AI policy questions for the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee. Serena received her PhD at MIT CSAIL in 2023. She studies how people write specifications for AI systems and how people assess whether AI systems are successful in learning from specifications. While at MIT, Serena served as an inaugural Social and Ethical Responsible Computing Scholar, teaching AI Ethics and developing MIT’s AI ethics curriculum that is also released on MIT OpenCourseWare. She graduated from Harvard College (2016), after which she worked as an Associate Product Manager at Google to help scale Google’s ARCore augmented reality product to 100 million devices. Her research has been supported by an MIT Presidential Fellowship and by an NSF GRFP. She has been selected as a Rising Star in EECS and an HRI Pioneer.