Julia Powles

Julia Powles is executive director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy and tech policy lead for the University-wide initiative UCLA DataX. She researches and teaches in the areas of privacy, intellectual property, internet governance, and the law and politics of data, automation and artificial intelligence.

Her work has been published in leading academic journals and in popular publications including The New Yorker, The Guardian, Financial Times, Medium, Slate, and WIRED. She has served on federal and state advisory committees on artificial intelligence, robotics, data sharing, intellectual property, human rights, and privacy.