HAI Associate Director Daniel Ho Garners Awards

Professor Ho honored for his contributions to AI and Law, and for helping fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

Daniel Ho, William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, and Director of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab), worked with the Santa Clara County Public Health Department in a collaboration that was awarded the Innovative Practice Gold Award for “the highest level of program innovation” to serve “community during the COVID-19 pandemic” by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO). Co-authors included Stanford RegLab members Lisa Lu, Benjamin Anderson, Raymond Ha, and Derek Ouyang as well as members of Santa Clara County Public Health Department Alexis D’Agostino and Sarah L. Rudman.

Additionally, a paper co-authored by Ho and RegLab members (Lucia Zheng ’22, Peter Henderson JD ’23, Neel Guha JD ’23, Brandon Anderson) “When Does Pretraining Help? Assessing Self-Supervised Learning for Law and the CaseHOLD Dataset of 53,000+ Legal Holdings,” was awarded the 2021 Carole Hafner Best Paper Prize at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law.