Moritz Hardt is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. Prior to joining the institute, he was Associate Professor for Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. His research contributes to the scientific foundations of machine learning and algorithmic decision making from a social perspective. He is a co-author of the textbooks Fairness and Machine Learning: Limitations and Opportunities (MIT Press) and Patterns, Predictions, and Actions: Foundations of Machine Learning (Princeton University Press).