Patrick Hall
Assistant Professor, The George Washington University
Patrick Hall is an assistant professor at The George Washington University, where he conducts research in support of the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and teaches in the university's Master's in Business Analytics program. He is an author of Machine Learning for High-Risk Applications: Approaches to Responsible AI, published in May 2023 by O'Reilly Media.
Prior to his academic appointment, Hall served as a principal scientist at BNH.AI, where he advised Fortune 500 companies and cutting-edge startups on AI risk. Before co-founding BNH (now Luminos.Law), Patrick led H2O.ai's efforts in responsible AI, resulting in one of the world's first commercial applications for explainability and bias mitigation in machine learning. Hall studied computational chemistry at the University of Illinois before graduating from the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University. He is on the board of the AI incident database, an organization that indexes incidents of "harm or near harm" caused by AI.