Jennifer (Jenn) Wortman Vaughan is an American computer scientist and Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research focusing mainly on building responsible artificial intelligence (AI) systems as part of Microsoft's Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics in AI (FATE) initiative.

Jennifer is also active in the research community, she served as the workshops chair and the program co-chair of the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPs) in 2019[2] and 2021,[3] respectively.

She currently serves as Steering Committee member of the Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency.

[5][6] She received an MSE and PhD in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 where she was mentored by Michael Kearns.

[5][11] Prior to joining Microsoft Research in 2012, Jennifer was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.