Ella Duus

Ella Duus is a policy advocate with a technical background dedicated to shaping safe, ethical, and trustworthy AI systems through governance. As a two-time NASA contractor and entrepreneur in the ML space, she leverages technical understanding to craft sound policy. Currently, Ella is working on risk assessment practices as a summer fellow at GovAI. She also works in the policy working group at Encode, informing federal lawmakers and advocating for state-level AI legislation. She is a research assistant at the Sloane Lab and the Faruqe Lab at the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science. Ella is a Jefferson Scholar and master of public policy student at the University of Virginia. She hopes to shape AI federal policy, particularly through legislation.