Gabriella Waters

Gabriella Waters is an artificial intelligence and machine learning researcher who serves as the Director of Operations and the Director of the Cognitive and Neurodiversity AI Lab (CoNA) at the Center for Equitable AI & Machine Learning Systems at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD. She is a founding member of the Maryland Responsible AI Council and an AI policy advisor at state, federal, and international levels. Gabriella has served as a research associate at NIST in the AI Innovation Lab, where she led AI testing and evaluation efforts for the ARIA project.

Gabriella is committed to increasing the diversity of thought in technology and advocates for interdisciplinary collaborations to advance innovation, responsibility, explainability, transparency, and ethics in AI development and application. Her research explores the intersections of human neurobiology and learning, the quantification of ethics in AI/ML systems, neuro-symbolic architectures, and the design of intelligent systems that leverage these foundations for enhanced human-computer synergy. She is especially focused on developing technological innovations that support neurodiverse populations.