Chair-Designate and Interim Dean
Mary R. Boyvey Chair for Excellence
Louis T. Yule Regents Professor
Kenneth R. Fleischmann is Chair-Designate and Interim Dean for the School of Information at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Mary R. Boyvey Chair for Excellence as well as the Louis T. Yule Regents Professorship in Library and Information Science. He is also the Founding Chair of Good Systems: Ethical AI at UT Austin [please add this hyperlink: http://goodsystems.utexas.edu/] and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Journal on Responsible Computing. He previously served as the Founding Director of Undergraduate Studies for the iSchool's B.A./B.S. in Informatics, the Inaugural Director of Doctoral Studies, and Interim Associate Dean for Research. His research and teaching focus on the ethics of AI and more broadly on the role of human values in the design and use of information technologies. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Microsoft, Cisco, Micron, MITRE, and the Public Interest Technology University Network.
2004 Ph.D., Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2002 M.S., Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1999 B.A., Computer Science and Anthropology (Summa Cum Laude, with Honors), Case Western Reserve University
Ethics of AI
Human-Centered AI
Human-Computer Interaction
Social Informatics
Value-Sensitive Design
Fleischmann, K.R. (2026). The Mutual Alignment of AI and Society . In Degrees of Change, J.M. Lavista Ferres (Ed.). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394413096.ch6
McCullough, C., Needle, J. P., Triem, H., Fleischmann, K. R., & Greenberg, S. R. (2025). "AI Is Not Gonna Take Our Jobs": Perspectives From Skilled Trade Labor Union Apprentices. IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, 6(4), 471-480.
McCullough, C. E., Fleischmann, K. R., Greenberg, S. R., & Lassiter, T. B. (2025). Workers Who Care: AI-Enabled Smart Hand Tools in the Skilled Trades. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 9(2), 1-20.
Lassiter, T. B., & Fleischmann, K. R. (2024). " Something Fast and Cheap" or" A Core Element of Building Trust"?-AI Auditing Professionals' Perspectives on Trust in AI. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 8(CSCW2), 1-22.
Fleischmann, K. R. (2023). The Sociotechnical Construction of Distrust during the COVID‐19 Pandemic. Hastings Center Report, 53, S16-S21.
iConference Best Paper Award, 2012
ASIS&T SIG-USE Best Information Behavior Conference Paper Award, 2012, 2022
ASIS&T SIG-SI Social Informatics Best Paper Award, 2018
Civic Futures Award for Designing for the 100%, 2019
MetroLab Innovation of the Month Award, July 2020, October 2021
iConference Best Short Research Paper Award, 2021
ASIS&T Distinguished Member, Inaugural Class, 2021
Lee Dirks Award for Best Paper (iConference), 2022
Cale McDowell Award for Innovation in Undergraduate Studies, 2023
ASIS&T SIG-AI Best Paper Award, 2023