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Alice Siu

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Dr. Alice Siu serves as the Associate Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab and is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford's Department of Communication, specializing in political communication, deliberative democracy, and public opinion. Dr. Siu also holds bachelor's degrees in economics, and Public Policy, as well as a master's degree in political science, all from Stanford University. 

In her role, Dr. Siu has collaborated with policymakers and political leaders globally, providing guidance on implementing deliberative democratic practices in over 50+ countries and jurisdictions. Her research interests in deliberative democracy include the quality of deliberation, scaling deliberation to K-16, and scaling deliberation through technology for deliberative societies. Beyond her research, Dr. Siu is actively involved in academia, teaching courses that bridge theory and practice in deliberative democracy. She leads the "Deliberative Democracy Practicum: Applying Deliberative Polling" during the autumn term and co-instructs "Artificial Intelligence and Deliberative Democracy" in the summer. These courses provide students with hands-on experience in organizing and analyzing deliberative polls, emphasizing the role of informed citizen engagement in democratic processes. She is also the voice and lead for the AI-assisted Stanford Online Deliberation Platform used in online Deliberative Polls, a collaboration with the Stanford Crowdsourced Democracy Team. 

Among other projects, she leads efforts for America in One Room Deliberative Polls, an ambitious project to create nationwide deliberations in the United States, and collaborates on the Meta Community Forums, a research endeavor to better understand how to govern digital technologies. She also serves as a board advisor to The Generation Lab, Close Up Foundation,  advisor to Neutronian, and the Honorary Director of Deliberation and Panel Studies at Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute.