Tina Lassiter

About

Tina Lassiter is a PhD candidate at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. As a former German IT- and IP lawyer, she has a strong legal background and an interest in AI policy. At the Weizenbaum Institute, she will help David Hartmann organize a panel for the Weizenbaum Forum on the ecosystem of AI accountability and algorithmic evaluations and will collaborate with him on a publication related to the topic.

In her dissertation, she researches cross-cultural approaches to algorithmic auditing in Canada, Germany, Singapore, and the US. Previously, she has been awarded a grant by the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics lab for research on the perspective of AI auditing professionals on the role of AI audits in trust in AI, which was presented the 2024 CSCW conference and published.

Tina is a graduate research assistant at UT’s Good Systems, a fellow of the Ethical A.I. National Science Foundation Research Trainee program, and a fellow at the Center for AI and Digital Policy.

Research Group: Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics (June 2025)