Kirsten Martin

KIRSTEN MARTIN is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Technology Ethics and is Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the Director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center (ND-TEC).

She researches privacy, technology, and corporate responsibility. She has written about privacy and the ethics of technology in leading academic journals across disciplines (Journal of Business Ethics, BEQ, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Journal of Legal Studies, Washington University Law Review, Journal of Business Research, etc) as well as practitioner publications such as MISQ Executive. She is the Technology and Business Ethics editor for the Journal of Business Ethics and the recipient of three NSF grants for her work on privacy, technology, and ethics. Dr. Martin is also an affiliate of Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity and a member of the advisory board for the Future Privacy Forum. She is regularly asked to speak on privacy and the ethics of big data, including her recent Tedx talk. She has a forthcoming book in March 2022, The Ethics of Data and Analytics (Taylor & Francis).

She earned her B.S. Engineering from the University of Michigan and her MBA and Ph.D from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business

CURRENT PROJECTS

• New book: Ethics of Data and Analytics. Taylor & Francis. March 2022.
• New article: Designing Ethical Technology Requires Systems for Anticipation and Resilience with Bobby Parmar. MIT Sloan Management Review.
• New article: Algorithmic Bias and Corporate Responsibility: How companies hide behind the false veil of the technological imperative.
• Legitimacy and AI Decisions with Ari Waldman
• Ethics of Predictive Analytics: Creating Accuracy, Diminishing Individuality.

UPCOMING EVENT DETAILS

• October 2021.

RECENT EVENTS

• May 2021. AI/Data Science/ML in Recruiting, Admissions, and Supporting Retention. National Academy of Engineering Sharing Exemplary Admissions Practices workshop.
• April. 2021. Privacy and Contextual Integrity. SIGIEP Privacy Panel. April 2021.
• December 9, 2020. Re-Imagining the Digital Age. Panelist.
• April 21-22, 2020. Speaker. Global Solutions Summit (Policy Summit for G20). Berlin (virtual).
• January 28, 2020. Panelist. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) “You Don’t Say: An FTC Workshop on Voice Cloning Technologies”