Dean Alderucci

Dean Alderucci is director of research for the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Patent Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics. He is currently on leave from Carnegie Mellon while serving as a senior advisor on artificial intelligence to the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

His research focuses on using artificial intelligence and natural-language processing to extract knowledge from legal and regulatory texts and to automate complex, knowledge-intensive work performed by lawyers, regulators, and medical professionals. He studies how software systems can interpret patent documents, adapt the patent system to AI technologies, and improve decision-making in legal and administrative processes. He also advises organizations on implementing machine-learning systems and designing customized AI tools for business and regulatory applications.

Alderucci also serves on the U.S. General Services Administration Acquisition Policy Federal Advisory Committee and is a visiting professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

Earlier in his career, he worked as a principal consultant advising public- and private-sector organizations on deploying AI systems and operational strategies. He previously taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and at New York University. Before entering academia, he was vice president and chief operating officer of the Innovation Division at Cantor Fitzgerald.

He is an inventor on more than 250 granted U.S. patents across a range of technical fields and is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.

Alderucci earned a Ph.D. in machine learning and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds an LL.M. from New York University School of Law and master’s degrees in applied mathematics, operations research, and computer science from Columbia University.