Riyanka Roy 
CHOUDHURY

 
Visiting Researcher

Riyanka Roy Choudhury is a CodeX fellow at the Stanford University’s Center for Legal Informatics (USA). Riyanka is an experienced legal tech strategist and advises startups globally in implementing legal design and privacy policy in their organizations. At Stanford, she is developing legal automation applications to simplify law while also speaking and publishing on emerging technologies policies while building a legal tech community. Choudhury also co-leads the RegTrax blockchain and Machine-Generated Legal Documents, AI automation projects at Stanford. Moreover, she led the Tech and Policy team at Pathcheck, MIT Pandemic which spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2020 where open-source softwares were developed, researched, and analysed for digital pandemic response. Previously, Choudhury worked as a Legislative Researcher at the Office of Member of Parliament, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Jal Shakti (India) where she interlinked India’s existing schemes and public policies under ‘The Mission Antyodaya’ project. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree with a specialization in Business, Law and Technology from University of California, Berkeley (USA) and a Bachelors in Business Administration (Management Honors) LL.B (Honors) dual degree from National Law University Odisha, Cuttack (India).

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Contact

lawv442@nus.edu.sg

In Residence

1 July 2022 to 30 June 2024

Riyanka Roy Choudhury is a CodeX fellow at the Stanford University’s Center for Legal Informatics (USA). Riyanka is an experienced legal tech strategist and advises startups globally in implementing legal design and privacy policy in their organizations. At Stanford, she is developing legal automation applications to simplify law while also speaking and publishing on emerging technologies policies while building a legal tech community. Choudhury also co-leads the RegTrax blockchain and Machine-Generated Legal Documents, AI automation projects at Stanford. Moreover, she led the Tech and Policy team at Pathcheck, MIT Pandemic which spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2020 where open-source softwares were developed, researched, and analysed for digital pandemic response. Previously, Choudhury worked as a Legislative Researcher at the Office of Member of Parliament, Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Union Cabinet Minister, Ministry of Jal Shakti (India) where she interlinked India’s existing schemes and public policies under ‘The Mission Antyodaya’ project. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M) degree with a specialization in Business, Law and Technology from University of California, Berkeley (USA) and a Bachelors in Business Administration (Management Honors) LL.B (Honors) dual degree from National Law University Odisha, Cuttack (India).

Choudhury received an award as part of Facebook’s (Meta) Ethics in AI Research Initiative for the Asia Pacific in 2020 and was recognized as one of the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics by Ford Foundation and Omidyar Foundation in 2022. She is an Expert Panelist for Responsible AI at MIT Sloan Management Review-Boston Consulting Group and at Emerging Technologies Policies Forum (Singapore). Currently, she is creating legal design framework for AI Ethics: Explainability and Fairness while focusing on the two main challenges of AI – transparency and equality.

  • Legal Technology
  • Legal Design
  • AI Ethics
  • Privacy Policy
  • Data Privacy
  • Big Data
  • Public Policy
  • Product Policy
  • Blockchain and Crypto Laws
  • AI Laws and document automation
  • Legal operations
  • Legal informatics
  • Computational Law
  • Document Management
  • AR/VR laws
  • IP Laws
  • Trust & Safety