Renée Sirbu

Renée Andrea Sirbu is a Postgraduate Associate at the Digital Ethics Center. She received her B.Sc. in Human Biology, Bioethics, and Analytic Philosophy at the University of Toronto (‘21) and her M.P.H. in Health Policy and Public Health Modeling from the Yale School of Public Health (‘23). Renée’s interests include information and privacy law, healthcare and national cybersecurity, and AI/ML ethics. Her research is primarily focused on the ethical use of healthcare AI in clinical settings, human-computer interaction, brain-computer interfaces, the governance of AI/ML software as a medical device (SaMD), reproductive health data protection, and technology justice. Additionally, she is working to create a regulatory landscape for postmortem digital autonomy, seeking to answer the question “what happens to our digital selves after we die?” Renée is also an affiliate of the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London, and an alumna trainee of the Population Health Analytics Laboratory at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (University of Toronto).