Amy Winecoff

Amy Winecoff brings a diverse background to her work on AI governance, incorporating knowledge from technical and social science disciplines. She is a fellow in the AI Governance Lab at the Center for Democracy & Technology. Her work focuses on governance issues in AI, such as how documentation and evaluation practices can support responsible design and deployment of AI systems. Previously, Amy was a fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), where she examined how cultural, organizational, and institutional factors shape emerging AI companies. She has hands-on experience as a data scientist in the tech industry, where she developed recommender systems for e-commerce. Amy obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience from Duke University, where her research explored human reward processing and social decision-making.