Biography
Kathleen Fraser is a computer scientist at the National Research Council Canada’s (NRC) Digital Technologies Research Centre, specializing in AI. In 2024, she represented Canada as part of the NRC delegation at the inaugural meeting of the International AI Safety Institutes and participated in an international joint testing exercise presented at the AI Action Summit in Paris in early 2025, highlighting her leadership in AI safety and ethics.
Fraser’s research focuses on natural language processing (NLP), addressing biases and safety issues in AI. She has co-authored papers on racial and gender biases, human rights concerns in toxic language detection and mitigating stereotypes. She also explores NLP applications in healthcare.
Fraser earned her PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto, followed by a postdoc at the University of Gothenburg. She has been an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University since 2022.