Rayid Ghani (born 1977) is a Distinguished Career Professor in the Machine Learning Department (in the School of Computer Science) and the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.
He was also the co-founder of Edgeflip, an analytics startup that grew out of the Obama 2012 Campaign, focused on social media products for non-profits, advocacy groups, and charities.
[1] Ghani started and runs the Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Summer Fellowship.
Ghani has been actively working with government agencies and non-profits on designing AI and Machine Learning Systems to help tackle societal problems in public health,[7] criminal justice,[8] social services,[9] education,[10] economic development, and workforce development[11] He has also testified in front of the US Senate in 2023[12] and the US House of Representatives in 2020,[13] on AI Governance and Regulation.
[20] Rayid's research contributions have been in the areas of text mining, co-training, active learning, consumer behavior modeling,[21] and fraud detection.