Damien Patrick Williams

Damien Patrick Williams is an assistant professor in Philosophy and Data Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A PhD in Science, Technology, and Society, from Virginia Tech in the United States, Damien researches how technologies such as algorithms, machine intelligence, and biotechnologies are impacted by the values, knowledge systems, philosophical explorations, social structures, and even religious beliefs of human beings. He is especially concerned with how the knowledge and experience of marginalized peoples affect the technosocial structures of human societies, including the history of space exploration. Damien is member of the Board of the JustSpace Alliance, the Project Advisory Committee for the Center for Democracy and Technology's Project on Disability Rights and Algorithmic Fairness, Bias, and Discrimination, and the Disability Inclusion Fund's Tech & Disability Stream Advisory Committee.