Nicholas Mattei is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tulane University and Co-Director of the Tulane Center for Community Engaged AI in New Orleans, LA, USA. His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and machine learning with applications in data science, economics, decision making, and psychology. His work leverages theory, data, and experiments to create systems that support decision making. This work is at the interface between AI and society, and he has a passion for studying the impacts of these technologies on society, and educating students to foreground these concerns in their own work.
He has published over 100 academic articles in top conferences and journals and is a co-author of the book Computing and Technology Ethics: Engaging Through Science Fiction from MIT Press. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) IBM, Google, and the Department of Education (DoE) and he is a 2024 NSF CAREER Award recipient. Before joining Tulane he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Laboratory in New York, USA; a Senior Researcher at Data61/CSIRO/NICTA and Conjoint Senior Lecturer at UNSW Sydney in Australia; and before that was an aerospace technology engineer at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA, USA. He completed his PhD in 2012 at the University of Kentucky, USA.
