Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services
Risk Management Subcommittee
The AI Council Subcommittee on Risk Management is tasked with developing a framework for assessing and managing risks associated with AI-enabled technologies. The Subcommittee seeks to identify risks associated with procurement, development and deployment of AI-enabled technologies, including compliance, data privacy, bias, security, and ethical risks; interpret UC’s risk appetite related to those risks; design a framework for assessing and monitoring those risks; and, time permitting, pilot the framework on a select set of AI-enabled technologies.
Subcommittee Members:
Matt Hicks (Subcommittee Co-chair), CIA, CISA, is the Systemwide Deputy Audit Officer for the University of California. In this role, Matt ensures overall execution of systemwide audit services, including effective resource deployment, professional development for UC audit staff, development and maintenance of methodologies and guidance, and monitoring and measurement of services. He oversees the annual systemwide risk assessment and internal audit plan development for the UC system and reports on internal activity, risk priorities, and results to the Regents Compliance and Audit Committee and systemwide leadership. Additionally, he serves as the Internal Audit Director for the Office of the President (UCOP), overseeing a team of auditors responsible for conducting audit and advisory services at UCOP. He has over 21 years of internal audit experience and, prior to joining UCOP, he was a manager in KPMG’s Advisory Services Practice in San Francisco. He is a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and has a B.S. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley.
Justin Sullivan (Subcommittee Co-chair) is the Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Procurement Officer for Supply Chain Management (SCM) at the University of California, San Francisco. SCM is responsible for helping UCSF faculty, staff and learners procure, pay for and receive the goods and services they need to advance health worldwide. Justin was previously Director of Strategic Sourcing at UCSF from 2011-2013. Prior to UCSF, Justin was Executive Director of the Strategic Sourcing Centers of Excellence at University of California Office of the President. UC Strategic Sourcing Agreements have provided over $1.5 billion in benefit to UC and are used by more than 2000 US public agencies. Justin began his career as a Policy Analyst for the United States Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton Administration. He spent 10 years with Ariba, helping global companies apply technology to strategic sourcing and procurement and served as the Director of Procurement Services at Carnegie Mellon University before joining UCSF. Justin currently serves on the University of California’s Presidential Artificial Intelligence Council as the Co-Chair of the Risk Subcommittee. He also serves as the co-Chair of the National Association for Educational Procurement Editorial Committee. Justin holds a BS and an MS in Public Management and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University. Connect with Justin on LinkedIn.
Jennifer Bombasaro Brady is the IT Policy Program Manager at UC Berkeley. She develops and executes strategic policy priorities, provides policy counsel, and convenes and leads campus stakeholders in authoring, revising, and rescinding campus IT policies. She also guides change management efforts to implement UC-wide and Berkeley campus policy and supports BerkeleyIT's engagement in internal and UC-led audits. Jennifer has spent nearly a decade at UC Berkeley; earlier in her career, she worked at the intersection of education and social change in roles at Tulane University and civil society organizations in South Africa and Cambodia. She holds master's degrees from Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University, and a bachelor's degree magna cum laude from Wheaton College.
David Danks is Professor of Data Science & Philosophy and affiliate faculty in Computer Science & Engineering at University of California, San Diego. His research interests range widely across philosophy, cognitive science, and machine learning, including their intersection. Danks has examined the ethical, psychological, and policy issues around AI and robotics across multiple sectors, including transportation, healthcare, privacy, and security. He has also done significant research in computational cognitive science and developed multiple novel causal discovery algorithms for complex types of observational and experimental data. Danks is the recipient of a James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award, as well as an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He currently serves on multiple advisory boards, including the National AI Advisory Committee.
Paul Dourish is Chancellor’s Professor and the Steckler Endowed Chair of Information and Computer Science at UC Irvine, where he directs the Center for Responsible, Ethical, and Accessible Technology (CREATE). He has served as co--director of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing, associate director of the California Institute for Telecommunication and Information Technology, and Associate Dean for Research for UCI’s Bren School for Information and Computer Sciences. His research interests lie broadly in Human-Computer Interaction and Science and Technology Studies, where he has published three books, over 180 articles, and holds 19 patents. Beyond his academic appointments, he has spent time as a researcher at Xerox PARC, Apple, and Intel. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the British Computer Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Matthew Gunkel is the Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer for the University of California, Riverside. Overseeing a period of significant change and growth at UCR, Matthew is charged with enabling support of strategic priorities, collaborative partnerships, and strengthening Information Technology Solutions through improvements in critical IT services (e.g., security, networking, teaching and learning, enterprise applications, support services, etc.).
Jonnathon Kline is the Systemwide Audit Director at the Office of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services. In this role, he oversees Office of the President and systemwide internal audit projects, the systemwide audit quality assurance function, and specialized audit projects. Prior to joining the University of California, he was an audit project manager for the California State Auditor’s office and interim director of its data analytics function. He previously served as Director of Audits and Accounting for the New York City Campaign Finance Board, where he oversaw public funds paid to political campaigns through New York City’s matching funds program and assisted with the creation of NYCVotes, a clearinghouse for election information and portal for accepting individual donors’ small dollar political contributions. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and has been a passionate advocate of public service since his first job at Grand Canyon National Park, where he worked as a wildland firefighter and served on an interagency Type II incident management team on large disasters in the Southwestern United States.
Brandie Nonnecke, PhD is Founding Director of the CITRIS Policy Lab, headquartered at UC Berkeley. She is an Associate Research Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy (GSPP) where she directs the Tech Policy Initiative, a collaboration between CITRIS and GSPP to strengthen tech policy education, research, and impact. Brandie is the Director of Our Better Web, a program that supports empirical research, policy analysis, training, and engagement to address the rise of online harms. She serves as co-director at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at Berkeley Law and the UC Berkeley AI Policy Hub. Brandie is the host of TecHype, a groundbreaking video and audio series that debunks misunderstandings around emerging technologies and explores effective technical and policy strategies to harness emerging technologies for good. Her research has been featured in Science, Wired, NPR, BBC News, MIT Technology Review, Buzzfeed News, among others. Her research articles, op-eds, and presentations are available at nonnecke.com.
Kyhm Penfil is Principal Campus Counsel at UC Irvine, where she provides strategic and crisis-response advice to senior leadership at the campus and across the UC system. Her advice focuses on compliance and risk (including cybersecurity, privacy, enterprise risk, and research compliance); strategy (including AI, data governance, ethics and innovation, and entrepreneurship) and human capital (including conflict of interest, crisis management, sexual misconduct, and DEI). She serves as problem solver, honest broker, business partner, legal counselor, and inspector general. Prior to joining the University, Ms. Penfil was a partner at Irell & Manella LLP, where her practice focused on IP litigation and complex business litigation at the trial and appellate level, and an art historian at the Wildenstein gallery. She is an enthusiastic learner, strategic thinker, creative problem solver, and expert counselor who effectively brokers consensus that produces results. Ms. Penfil serves or has served on the boards of the Orange County Bar Association, Anti-Defamation League, and UCI Beall Applied Innovation. She will travel anywhere to see a great building or work of art. Ms. Penfil is an alumna of USC’s Gould School of Law (J.D., Order of the Coif) and Wellesley College (A.B.).
Duygu Tosun-Turgut, PhD, is a Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF and the Founding Director of Medical Imaging Informatics and Artificial Intelligence at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Tosun-Turgut obtained her BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Bilkent University, Turkey in 1999, and she received her MSE in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland in 2001. In 2003, she completed her MA in Mathematics from The Johns Hopkins University, and she earned her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University in 2005, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Neurology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2008. Her independent research career began as a Research Scientist at the Center for Imaging Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND) at UCSF, followed by a faculty appointment at the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at UCSF in 2011. Since her initial faculty appointment at UCSF, she was first appointed as Co-Director of CIND and then transitioned to the Founding Director of the Medical Imaging Informatics and Artificial Intelligence.