Transparency Subcommittee

The AI Council Subcommittee on Transparency develops approaches to promote transparency to the University community and to the public on ways in which AI is being utilized or may be utilized within the University of California.  Transparency in the use of AI will enable the University to better evaluate potential risks and opportunities, study University experiences and outcomes, and to determine subsequent initiatives, such as the development of policy relating to responsible AI use that promotes efficiency, transparency, civil liberties, and autonomy, and leads to equitable positive outcomes.

Subcommittee Members:

Hillary Noll Kalay (Subcommittee Co-chair) is Senior Principal Counsel at the University of California’s Office of General Counsel in Oakland, California, advising UC campuses and medical centers on matters relating to clinical research, data rights, privacy, and procurement. Hillary is recognized within the UC system and nationally as an expert in privacy concerns in international and domestic clinical research, and complex data collaborations and artificial intelligence. Hillary supports UC’s institutional review boards, health care and research compliance, clinical research contracting, research policy, and privacy offices throughout the UC system, advising campuses and medical centers on FDA and OHRP regulations, HIPAA and GDPR, and standards for protecting rights to patient and research data. Prior to joining UC’s Office of General Counsel, Hillary developed and advised on UC policies relating to clinical trials and human subject research protection. Hillary previously practiced intellectual property litigation at national law firms in San Francisco. Hillary also holds a Master of Public Policy and a CIPP/US certification.

Kent Wada (Subcommittee Co-chair) is chief privacy officer for the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus. Designated as the campus’s inaugural chief privacy officer in 2012, and the first CPO in the University of California system, Kent addresses foundational privacy and data issues that have broad impact on the campus community, the academy, and the University mission. His office collaborates closely with other campus offices and counterparts in the UCLA Health Sciences for the protection of personal data. He works broadly across the campus and its governance functions to help shape the institutional agenda for data policy issues of strategic concern, drawing from solutions to everyday operational privacy conundrums. Kent has served on numerous University and national committees and task forces and is a frequent speaker on current privacy topics, particularly at the intersection of balancing opportunity and risk in a world awash in data. He posted the first web page at www.ucla.edu and served as UCLA's first de facto webmaster, worked to advocate for higher education and broker solutions with the entertainment industry over illegal peer-to-peer file sharing, chaired the working group leading to the seminal report on balancing privacy and information security for UC, and has had long involvement with response to privacy breaches. He is now focusing attention on the UC AI Council in considering transparency of the University's use of AI. Kent is passionate about enabling individuals to participate fully as digital citizens, especially in helping to enhance accessibility and apply emergent technologies to people's lives in a manner respectful of civil liberties in the digital realm. His greatest hope is that his work sparks a passion in others.

Christine K. Cassel, internist, geriatrician and bioethicist, is the Senior Advisor for Strategy and Policy in the Department of Medicine at UCSF, where she is working on biomedical ethics and the role of technology in health care including the use of patient data in big data applications such as artificial intelligence. Prior to coming to UCSF in 2018, Dr. Cassel served as Planning Dean for the new Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. From 2013 to 2016 she was the President and CEO of the National Quality Forum, and previously served as president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation.  Dr. Cassel was one of 20 scientists serving President Obama on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). She is a leading expert in geriatrics and policy for an aging society, in bioethics, and in professional standards and quality of care.  In her academic career she has served as Dean of the School of Medicine at Oregon Health and Sciences University, as Chairman of the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Chief of General Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago. Among her many professional achievements and honors, Dr. Cassel was elected to membership of the National Academy of Medicine in 1992. She was the first woman to be President of the American College of Physicians and, subsequently, first woman Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine. She has served as Chair of the Board of the Greenwall Foundation, a national foundation for bioethics, was the President of the American Federation for Aging Research; and was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director at the National Institutes of Health. She currently advises a number of start-up companies using information science to advance healthcare quality. She has received numerous honorary degrees and is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Medicine of the U.K. and Canada. She is author of over 200 articles and author or editor of 11 books, including one of the leading textbooks in geriatric medicine, and Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care.

Coreen Harada is the Executive Director, Research & Innovation at the University of California, Office of the President. Her expertise in technology integration includes change management and workforce development. Prior to joining UC, Coreen held research leadership, program operations, and business development positions at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Coreen is a research psychologist and is a graduate of Wellesley College (BA), the California State University, Fresno (MA), and Boston University (EdD).

Mike Kennedy serves as the Deputy Chief Information Officer at the University of California, Riverside. Mike boasts over two decades of leadership within the higher education landscape, primarily within the UC system. He's recognized for his strategic vision in employing IT solutions that drive institutional growth, advance student success, and amplify research capabilities. Mike possesses a deep-seated expertise in data analytics and artificial intelligence, consistently leveraging these avenues to enrich learning outcomes and bolster operational prowess. At the heart of his leadership style is an emphasis on inclusivity, fostering collaboration, and promoting an atmosphere that nurtures creativity and personal evolution. Central to his ethos is an unwavering commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, consistently championing an inclusive technology space. Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from UC Riverside and an MBA in Information Management from CSU San Bernardino. Passionate and visionary, he believes in the transformative potential of technology in the realm of education.

Bill Maurer is the Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology; Law; and Criminology, Law and Society. Professor Maurer is the Director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. He received his BA from Vassar College and his MA and PhD from Stanford University. In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2018, he was named a Filene Fellow. Professor Maurer is a cultural anthropologist and sociolegal scholar who conducts research on the technological infrastructures and social relations of exchange and payment. He has particular expertise in alternative and experimental forms of money and finance, payment technologies, and their legal implications.

Camille Nebeker, EdD, MS, is a Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego. Dr. Nebeker directs the UC San Diego Research Ethics Program and is voting faculty with the UC San Diego Design Lab. She co-founded and directs the UC San Diego ReCODE Health center, which provides education and consultation services to guide ethical practices in technology-supported health research. Dr. Nebeker applies a human centered design approach to inform ethical and responsible practices in digital health research including risk assessment, informed consent and the return of individual and group-level research results. Dr. Nebeker’s research has received support from federal, foundation and industry sources including the NSF, NIH, Office of Research Integrity and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Publications related to her work are accessible online.

Scott Seaborn is a Principal Investigator at the Office of Ethics, Compliance and Audit Services.  Scott has worked in the privacy and compliance fields for over 20 years, including positions at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR); UCSF, County of Napa; and Genentech, Inc. While at OCR, Scott was part of the initial investigative team tasked with enforcing HIPAA, when enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy Rule began in the early 2000’s, and he has been passionate about protecting the privacy rights of individuals ever since.  Scott has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from UCLA and Master’s Degree in Pacific International Affairs from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).    He is also certified in Healthcare Compliance – Privacy (CHC-P), by the Healthcare Compliance Association (HCCA). 

Han Mi Yoon-Wu is the Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of Undergraduate Admissions for the University of California system. She has worked in admissions at the University of California Office of the President for 23 years and became the chief admissions officer in 2018. During her tenure at UC, she has played a vital role developing and implementing admissions policies for the University of California and provided leadership on several technology projects. As a first generation college graduate, she has dedicated her professional career to promoting access to higher education for students from all walks of life. Ms. Yoon-Wu holds degrees from Drake University and Stanford University. 

Zulema Valdez is Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Equity, Justice, and Inclusive Excellence at UC Merced and Professor of Sociology. In her role as interim AVC, she is committed to developing sustainable initiatives focused on equity and inclusive excellence for and across our campus community. Professor Valdez's research interests center on the emergence, persistence, and reproduction of social inequality and stratification in the United States, particularly in institutions such as the labor market, higher education, and neighborhoods. She is an expert in the study of undocumented students in higher education, minoritized entrepreneurs, and immigrant health disparities; a program of research she approaches from an intersectional lens. She is the author of two books, an anthology; several edited volumes and dozens of research articles.