Ryan Steed

Ryan Steed

I am a research scientist at the Center for AI Standards and Innovation in the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). I am supported by an AI Policy Fellowship from Princeton University. Previously, I completed a Ph.D. in Machine Learning & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Alessandro Acquisti.

I conduct empirical evaluations of algorithmic systems to help improve tech governance.

Research

Working Papers

News

Our team at CAISI released a blog post highlighting open questions for AI measurement science.

12/02/2025

Excited to join the Applied Systems team in the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

08/15/2025

I’ll be discussing differential privacy, law, and policy at the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy Workshop.

06/01/2025

I successfully defended my dissertation. I’m now an AI Policy Fellow at Princeton AI Lab.

05/09/2025

I’m presenting a poster at TPDP & giving a talk at the OpenDP Community Meeting DP Beyond Algorithms Workshop this week — stop by and see our work on census privacy and DP adoption.

08/18/2024