Stephen Guth
C4i Senior AI Fellow
Bio
Dr. Stephen Guth received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Statistics from MIT in 2023, and in 2026 he received his JD from Harvard Law School. He joined the Center for Innovation and AI Law & Innovation Institute in June 2026 as a Senior AI Fellow.
Dr. Guth’s scholarship focuses on two pillars at the intersection of law and AI:
(1) the law of AI, the application of legal doctrines like liability, agency, copyright, and professional ethics to algorithms and AI systems, and
(2) AI for law, the use of AI systems in the legal system by law firms, judges, and law schools.
Before joining the law, his doctoral dissertation centered on the application of machine learning techniques to statistical problems in naval architecture, especially uncertainty quantification and active learning for extreme events.
Education
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Harvard Law School
J.D. 2026 -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D. 2023 -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master's 2019 -
University of Maryland, College Park
B.S. 2012
Selected Scholarship
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Methodological Challenges in Agentic Evaluations of AI Systems
K Wei, G Wu, P Paskov, ICML Workshop on Technical AI Governance (TAIG) 2025 -
Co-reasoning by Humans in the Loop as a Goal for Designers of Machine Learning-Driven Algorithms in Medicine
The American Journal of Bioethics 2024 -
Wave episode based Gaussian process regression for extreme event statistics in ship dynamics: Between the Scylla of Karhunen–Loève convergence and the Charybdis of transient features
TP Sapsis, Ocean Engineering 2022 -
Discovering and forecasting extreme events via active learning in neural operators
E Pickering, GE Karniadakis, TP Sapsis, Nature Computational Science 2022