Professor Boris BABIC

Associate Professor, HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science and Department of Philosophy, HKU
Associate Professor, (by courtesy) Faculty of Law, HKU

Professor Boris Babic is HKU-100 Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, jointly appointed in the Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science, the Department of Philosophy, and (by courtesy) the Faculty of Law, from Fall 2023. He also serves as an occasional visiting professor in the Decision Sciences department at INSEAD.
Professor Babic received a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School, an MS in Statistics and a PhD in Philosophy, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He also practiced law at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in Los Angeles, USA. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
Professor Babic’s primary research interests are in Bayesian inference and decision-making, ethics, law, and policy of artificial intelligence and machine learning, especially in medical applications. His research has been published extensively in leading journals such as Science, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Digital Medicine, and the Harvard Business Review.
Professor Babic will be on leave from the University of Toronto, where he is Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Department of Philosophy and a faculty fellow of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology & Society.