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About Us

technology. innovation. equality.

Women can do it all.

Women deserve it all.

Our Purpose

We believe technology and innovation can pave the way for breakthrough advances in gender equality. We are committed to developing user-friendly tools that employers can utilize to mitigate implicit bias in performance ratings and promotions, improve developmental feedback and more fairly allocate both mundane assignments as well as those with high visibility. These products also will advance equality for members of the African American, LGBTQ, disability and other communities vulnerable to discrimination.

Obtaining a grant through the Equality Can't Wait Challenge is an important step to assure the development of technology and processes that further equality -- instead of setting it back.

We believe our initiative will trigger a ripple effect that positively impacts women at all levels in all industries across the country, as well as improving equity among minorities and other traditionally marginalized communities.

About the Georgia Tech Team

The Georgia Institute of Technology is nationally ranked #4 for computer engineering, #4 in “most innovative schools” and recognized by Forbes as one of 12 incubators “changing the world.” Georgia Tech’s innovation culture as well as a student body actively engaged in groundbreaking research makes it an ideal executor of a breakthrough program to automate performance reviews and promotions in a bias-free manner.

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Dr. Dana Randall is the ADVANCE Professor of Computing, Director of the Center for Emergent Computation, and an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley and her A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard, subsequently holding postdoctoral positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), in Princeton. Dr. Randall is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, a National Associate of the National Academies and has been the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and a Sloan Foundation Fellowship.

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Dr. Swati Gupta is a Fouts Family Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor in the H. Milton School of Industrial and System Engineering at Georgia Tech. She received her Ph.D. in operations research from the Massachusetts Institue of Tecnology Operations Research Center and dual degrees in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Dr. Gupta was the Microsoft Research Fellow at Simons Institute in Spring 2M and received the prestigious Simons-Berkeley Research Fellowship in 2017-18 and the Google Women in Engineering Award in India. Her work focuses on machine learning and fairness.

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Srinivas Aluru is Executive DIrector of the Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS) and Professor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He co-leads the NSF South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub which nurtures big data partnerships between organizations in the 16 Southern States and Washington DC and the NSF Transdisciplinary Research Institute for Advancing Data Science. Dr. Aluru conducts research in high performance computing, large-scale data analysis, bioinformatics and systems biology, combinatorial scientific computing and applied algorithms. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, IEEE and SIAM.

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Dr. Antón is a Professor in (and former Chair of) the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2016, she was appointed by President Obama to the Bi-partisan Commission on Enhancing Cybersecurity for the Nation. She currently serves on the NIST Information Security & Privacy Advisory Board and the Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board. She is a former member of the U.S. DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee, the CRA Board of Directors, the NSF Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate Advisory Council, the IEEE Computer Society Research Board, the DARPA ISAT Study Group, the USACM Public Policy Council, and the Advisory Board for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. She is a three-time graduate of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, receiving a Ph.D. in 1997 with a minor in Management & Public Policy, an M.S. in 1992, and a B.S. in 1990 with a minor in Technical and Business Communication.

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Ari Schlesinger is a rising scholar in Human-Centered Computing and PhD student at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the College of Computing. Her research focuses on advancing anti-discrimination practices within the tech community. Her work has garnered attention from Motherboard, Oxford Insights Research Group, the ACM's CHI Proceedings, and the National Science Foundation—including a best 2018 paper award for the work “Let’s Talk About Race: Identity, Chatbots, and AI.” Centering intersectionality, diversity, and inclusion in her research, Ari combines qualitative methods, social science theory, computer science expertise, and social change praxis to learn how we can build technology for a better future. She received a National Science Foundation Fellowship to support her work. She holds a BA in Technology and Social Change from Pitzer College. She also has training in conflict resolution and evidence-based teaching strategies. Previously, Ari interned with the Human Experience & Design Group at Microsoft and as a Research Project Manager on a National Science Foundation grant in Computer Science Education at Harvey Mudd.

Advisory Board

As we move forward with the grant process, we are pleased to have an Advisory Board of experts from a variety of backgrounds. We will continue to seek input from stakeholders to assure diverse perspectives are understood and incorporated as this project moves forward.