CodeX Fellow Nicole Shanahan  just pinged us about her visit today with Vikrum Ayer, (below) Senior Adviser for Manufacturing & Innovation Policy at The White House National Economic Counsel, to discuss CodeX’s  police data and smart prosecution project. I turn the mic over to her! —Monica Bay

During the meeting, we discussed a recent research partnership between CodeX and the San Francisco District Attorney  office, to provide analytical support to its blue ribbon task force investing police misconduct.

The goal of the partnership is to produce structured, aggregated data from non-structured, images of incident reports for the purpose of statistical and probabilistic analysis,” said Shanahan. “CodeX is working with three professors in the Computer Science department to incorporate a variety of new computer science techniques. These include, Professor Christopher Re and his DeepDive team who have developed machine learning techniques to automatically create structured data from unstructured text and images; Professor Gregory Valiant who specializes in algorithms, applied probability, and statistics; and, Jure Leskovec who specializes in machine learning methods to diagnose biases in human decision making.

CodeX and its partners at Stanford are working to coordinate with the White House’s police data initiative, which is being spearheaded by the Office of Science and Technology Policy | The White House, the Chief Technology Officer’s office, and Clarence Wardell, who currently serves as Presidential Innovation Fellow.

CodeX Fellow (in residence) Nicole Shanahan is the founder/CEO of ClearAccessIP. She specializes in the utilization of structured databases, APIs, UI/UX, automation and SaaS in the intellectual property space. Shanahan is an avid researcher and writer; her current project focuses on trends and projections of various applications of legal informatics to social needs. She worked as a researcher for Professor Colleen Chien who now serves as senior advisor for intellectual property and innovation in the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy. Shanahan received her J.D. from Santa Clara University. In April 2014, ABA Journal featured her in an article on women in legal technology.