Deven Desai

Deven Desai is an associate professor of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business. His is also the Associate Director for Law, Policy, and Ethics for ML@GATECH. He was the first and, to date, only Academic Research Counsel at Google, Inc., and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. Professor Desai’s scholarship examines how business interests, new technology—especially computer science-driven technology—and economic theories shape privacy, technology, competition, and intellectual property law and where those arguments explain productivity or where they fail to capture society’s interest in the freedom and development.