About Me

I’m a Computer Science Ph.D. Student at the Stanford Trustworthy AI Research (STAIR) Lab and the Stanford Intelligent Systems Lab (SISL) at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Mykel Kochenderfer and Prof. Sanmi Koyejo. I’m also a Geopolitics & Technology Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School/Belfer Center and have the honor of serving as the vice chair for the EU’s first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice.

In 2024, I became the Lead Researcher for the Responsible AI chapter of Stanford’s AI Index and moderated part of the AI Governance Day at the 2024 AI for Good Summit, including a discussion on international AI governance efforts with 50+ ministers from across the globe. I’m also grateful to have received one of Stanford’s Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowships for my work at the intersection of AI & policy.

My goal is to contribute to responsible AI systems with technical and governance solutions. Questions I’m interested in include: How can we ensure the validity and quality of benchmarks and other evaluations? What technical tools and research can support AI governance efforts? And how could a consensus on a technical level look like in the context of international AI governance efforts?

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If you catch me outside of work, I’m an adventurous traveler – 50 countries and counting – an avid reader, cook, and casual ultimate frisbee player! Besides that, I can be interested in and love to talk about almost everything but among my favorite topics are Eintracht Frankfurt (my favorite soccer club), the situation of careleavers, and my research of course (or anything responsible-AI-related, really!). Not a big fan of small talk though!

I also like meeting new people over a cup of tea. Feel free to reach out at anka [at] cs.stanford.edu or DM me on X/Twitter (@AnkaReuel).

I also have a sweet tooth for crazy out-of-the-box ideas and adventures. In 2018, I drove a mini motorcycle around the Gates of Hell in Turkmenistan. How I got there, you ask? Long story that I am happy to tell, but essentially I took an Opel Corsa that I bought on eBay for 300 € and drove it from Germany to Mongolia and back. I told you, I like crazy.