Erhardt Graeff is an Associate Professor of Social and Computer Science at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Olin’s liaison to the Public Interest Technology University Network, and co-founder of Olin’s public interest technology clinic, PInT. He is also a faculty affiliate of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, a faculty associate at the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and a current KEEN Engineering Unleashed Fellow.
Trained as an interdisciplinary scholar with a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab, Dr. Graeff has established a record of research on ethics and responsibility in engineering, civic learning, and the design and use of technologies for democratic participation. His work appears in venues across computing, science and technology studies, education, and philosophy. At Olin, he is known for courses and programming that integrate ethical reflection, participatory methods, and technical design. His scholarship and pedagogy have contributed to national conversations on ethics and public interest technology in STEM education, and he regularly collaborates with nonprofit and public-sector partners seeking to build ethical and accountable systems. He recently served as Research Director of the AI for Impact program at the Burnes Center for Social Change at Northeastern University, where he mentored student teams designing human-centered and ethically grounded AI tools in partnership with state government agencies.
Beyond academia, Erhardt serves in local elected office as a Trustee of the Needham Free Public Library and a member of Needham, Massachusetts’s Town Meeting, representing Precinct D.
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