Abhishek Gupta (Dec 1992 - Sept 2024)

In memoriam: Abhishek Gupta (Dec 1992 - Sept 2024).

Abhishek Gupta is the Director for Responsible AI with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) advising clients on building end-to-end Responsible AI (RAI) programs. He is also the Founder & Principal Researcher at the Montreal AI Ethics Institute, an international non-profit research institute with a mission to democratize AI ethics literacy.  He holds the BCG Henderson Institute Fellowship on Augmented Collective Intelligence, studying the complementary strengths in hybrid collectives of humans and machines and is a Senior Fellow at UNIDIR working on security and technology issues. 

Through his work as the Chair of the Standards Working Group at the Green Software Foundation, he is leading the development of a Software Carbon Intensity standard to measure the environmental impacts of these systems. 

He specializes in operationalizing RAI and its deployments in organizations and assessing and mitigating the environmental impact of these systems. He has advised national governments, multilateral organizations, academic institutions, and corporations across the globe. He is the author of the widely-read State of AI Ethics Report and The AI Ethics Brief. He formerly worked at Microsoft as a Machine Learning Engineer where his team helped to solve the toughest technical challenges faced by Microsoft's biggest customers. He also served on the CSE Responsible AI Board at Microsoft.

You can learn more about his work here.