Os Keyes
Os Keyes is an American postdoctoral researcher. Their research is centered around data ethics and transgender populations in medical history and artificial intelligence.
Early life and career
From 2014 to 2016, Os Keyes worked for the Wikimedia Foundation as a Research Analyst. Between 2016 and the start of their Ph.D. program in 2017, Keyes worked at Rapid7.
Starting in 2017, Keyes studied at the University of Washington under the Department Of Human Centred Design & Engineering. The Primary focus of their work during their Ph.D. candidacy focused on the implications of using facial recognition software for automatic gender recognition.
In 2019, they testified in the Washington State House of Representatives in support of House Bill 1624 to restrict the government's ability to use facial recognition software. That same year, they presented a talk at the 2019 WikidataCon, entitled "Questioning Wikidata."
In 2025, Keyes served as a guest for multiple podcast episodes for QueerCME, discussing their research on transgender populations. Later that year, they served as a speaker at a documentary screening at Northwestern University and completed their dissertation.
They currently work at the University of Massachusetts Lowell as a postdoctoral fellow, researching and teaching in Science and Technology Studies.
Awards
- 2019: Microsoft's Ada Lovelace Fellowship