Maytal Saar-Tsechansky

Biography

Maytal Saar-Tsechansky is the Mary John and Ralph Spence Centennial Professor at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and a co-founder of Sweetch, an AI-based health company. Her research focuses on advancing AI to improve decision-making and to benefit people, organizations, and society. Her recent work focuses on human-AI teaming and trustworthy AI with the overarching goal of bringing to bear human, organizational, and societal goals and constraints to catalyze AI systems’ positive impact in the world. Beyond AI, Maytal’s research aspires to make a positive impact in the world and includes challenges such as mitigation of partisan animosity and promoting democratic attitudes. Her work has been supported by government and industry and her research has been published in the top business and science venues, including Science, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Journal of Finance, and Management Science. Maytal has led the University of Texas at Austin’s Translational AI initiative and is an academic board member of the university’s Machine Learning Lab.