👥Attribution & Collaboration

Michael Boyce is a tech and policy expert who recently wrapped up his role as Director of the AI Corps at DHS, where he built the federal government's largest civilian AI team and hired 50 senior AI experts into the Department. Before that, he spent time at the White House working on a range of issues includingAI policy, Western Hemisphere Foreign Assistance, and product/strategy roles at the United States Digital Service. He has over a decade of experience digitizing government processes and building machine learning systems across immigration and national security agencies. Earlier in his career, he worked directly as a Refugee Officer, leading teams and interviewing refugees in places like Ethiopia, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, and Turkey, before later leading the team that digitized the U.S. refugee and asylum application process. He lives in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington DC, and likes playing chess and finding good soup dumpling restaurants in the DC suburbs.

Abigail Haddad is an Machine Learning Engineer working on text data pipelines and testing frameworks. She has a PhD in Public Policy from RAND and previously worked for the Army and DHS AI Corps. She co-organizes Data Science DC, runs a civic tech happy hour, and blogs at presentofcoding.substack.com, where she writes about practical approaches to LLM evaluation, text processing pipelines, and coding in government. Some of her work has focused on analyzing government personnel data, including FedScope and USAJobs datasets. She's currently looking for her next job.