Scholar
Berk Ustun
Google Scholar ID: 6z_XWYcAAAAJ
UCSD
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,400
H-index
20
i10-index
27
Publications
20
Co-authors
35
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2025: NSF funding for ARIA: AI Research Institute on Interaction for AI Assistants
- 2024: Served on the Executive Committee of FAccT
- 2023: Recognized as a Notable Area Chair at NeurIPS
- 2023: NSF Award for Recourse Verification
- 2023: Amazon Research Award for Participatory Personalization in Machine Learning
- 2022: Program Chair for FAccT 2023
- 2021: NIH Award for Bridge to Artificial Intelligence (Ethics Core)
- 2021: NSF Award for AI-Driven Wildfire Prevention
- 2021: Selected as a Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences
- 2021: FAI Award for Fair AI in Medicine (funded by NSF & Amazon)
- Mentored multiple PhD students who successfully defended and joined institutions like Anthropic and Meta AI
Background
- Assistant Professor at the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
- Research focuses on promoting the adoption and safety of machine learning in domains such as medicine, consumer finance, and the physical sciences
- Emphasizes 'last mile' challenges related to fairness, interpretability, personalization, and governance
- Previously held research positions at Google AI and Harvard University
- Co-founded Petal, a company using machine learning to broaden credit access
