Melodi Dincer

Melodi Dincer (she/her/ella) is a technology privacy lawyer with expertise in biometric surveillance, AI policy, and data justice lawyering. Her work focuses on how the law can entrench power disparities in the development, adoption, and legitimation of new technologies. She is a Legal Research Fellow with the Knowing Machines Research Project, an interdisciplinary research group studying the ways that training datasets shape how machine learning systems interpret the world. She is also a Supervising Attorney with the Technology Law and Policy Clinic at NYU Law and a Fellow with NYU Law’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. Previously, she clerked on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District and served as the Appellate Advocacy Fellow with the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). She received her J.D. from NYU Law in 2020 and is licensed to practice in New York.