Latest move
Northwestern → OpenAI · Economist in Residence
Ronnie Chatterji, whose X bio reads Chief Economist @OpenAI, welcomes her as an Economist in Residence at OpenAI (the post the tracker's source quotes).
Economic theorist at Northwestern whose recent papers study how people delegate decisions to AI and who owns creative work that AI imitates. OpenAI's chief economist named her an Economist in Residence in October 2026.
Path
OpenAIEconomist in ResidenceNEW- NUNorthwestern UniversityAssistant Professor of Economics (2021-2024) and of Computer Science (2021-2022)2021–2024
- UPUniversity of PennsylvaniaAssistant Professor of Economics2017–2020
- MRMicrosoft Research New EnglandPostdoctoral Researcher2016–2017
Harvard UniversityPh.D. in Economics2016
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyS.B. in Mathematics and S.B. in Economics2011
Papers
- Friend or Foe: Delegating to an AI Whose Alignment is UnknownarXiv 2025Models a decision maker choosing what patient information to give an AI that may or may not share their goals.
- Creative Ownership in the Age of AIarXiv 2026Proposes that an AI output infringes a work if it could not have been generated without that work in the training data.
- Algorithm Design: A Fairness-Accuracy FrontierarXiv 2021Characterizes the best achievable trade-offs between an algorithm's accuracy and its fairness across groups.
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