Sina Fazelpour

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science at Northeastern University. A philosopher of science by training, I work on the epistemology, ethics, and governance of knowledge processes and practices in diverse, AI-mediated societies. At Northeastern I am affiliated with the Institute for Experiential AI and the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science.

I was selected to the inaugural cohort of Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellows. From 2022 to 2025 I was a Visiting AI Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where I contributed to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework.

I serve on the steering committee of ACM FAccT, and was its Program Chair in 2025. I co-founded the Intelligence, Data, Ethics and Society (IDEAS) summer program, a training initiative bringing undergraduates into responsible AI, and I created and help organize two online seminar series: Computational Social Philosophy Seminars and Philosophy of AI Network Talks.

I obtained my PhD in Philosophy from the University of British Columbia in 2019, advised by Christopher Mole and Evan Thompson, and was an SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, working with David Danks and Zachary Lipton. Before philosophy I trained in medical biophysics and biomedical engineering.

Aside from academic work, I enjoy football and literature. Some of my translations and poems have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Frogpond, and Haiku 21.