EPP Alumni Panel: AI, Emerging Technology & Policy: Where EPP Meets the Technology Frontier

Please join us for an EPP Alumni Panel focused on AI, Emerging Technology & Policy. The panel will explore how emerging technologies are shaping policy and society, with discussion around privacy, responsible technology, and the intersection of technical expertise and policy. Our panelists will be Janice Tsai (EPP PhD ’09); Tamara Savage (EPP PhD ’23); Elaine Newton (EPP PhD ’09). About the speakers: Janice Tsai: Janice Tsai is a Staff Privacy Engineer at Google. Her PhD in EPP focused on Usable Privacy. She spent 7 years at Microsoft working in Privacy, and 3 years at Mozilla as an HCI research scientist prior to joining Google Tamara Savage: Tamara Savage currently works as a policy analyst and researcher at the California Senate Office of Research, where she covers topics including artificial intelligence, data privacy, social media, electric vehicles, the electric grid, and renewable energy. She received her PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University in 2023, where her dissertation research focused on improving technology forecasting by including policy, economic, and social factors. During graduate school, Tamara was a RAND summer associate with the National Security Research Division. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a staffer at the National Science Foundation in Washington, DC, as a technical writer for a software company in Silicon Valley, and as a science policy intern for the Association of American Universities. She received a BS in Engineering and Literature from Harvey Mudd College in 2015. Elaine Newton: Dr. Elaine Newton is part of the Global Public Policy AI team for Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is the Principal for AI standards and tech policy and leads the team’s engagements and broader strategy to drive awareness and adoption of international standards. Prior to joining AWS, Newton led Oracle’s Global Standards Policy and Compliance engagements for 7 years and spent over a decade at the National Institute of Standards &