Tina Lassiter, PhD

About

Tina Lassiter is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Computing at the University of Texas at Austin. As a former IT and IP lawyer, she has a solid legal background and an interest in AI policy. At the Weizenbaum Institute, she will collaborate with David Hartmann on the project “Evaluating genAI evaluations” and, in particular, will research evaluations in Brazil.

Her dissertation (“Cross-National Perspectives on Algorithmic Auditing”), which she successfully completed in May 2026, addresses AI governance and the evaluation of AI in Canada, Germany, Singapore, and the United States. She received research funding from the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab to study the perspectives of “AI auditing professionals” on the role of audits in relation to trust in AI. She presented and published the results of this research at the 2024 CSCW Conference.

Tina works at the University of Texas at Austin as part of the university’s “Good Systems” grand challenge; she was a fellow in the NSF-funded Ethical AI Program at the University of Texas and is a fellow at the Centers for AI and Digital Policy.

Research Group: Data, Algorithmic Systems, and Ethics (September-December 2026 \ June 2025)