About

Welcome to the homepage of Kira Lussier! I am a writer, research administrator, historian, and educator.

Since 2022, I have worked in AI research administration & policy at CIFAR (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research). I’m currently the Program Manager, AI Safety, where I manage interdisciplinary research programs designed to foster safe, fair, and accountable AI through the Canadian AI Safety Institute Research Program at CIFAR.

I spent a decade as an academic researcher investigating the relationship between science and society. As a postdoctoral researcher cross-appointed at the Institute for Management and Innovation, University of Toronto Mississauga, and Rotman’s Institute for Gender and the Economy, I investigated organizational diversity initiatives and gender bias in the history of technology.

I earned my PhD from the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, where I was also an affiliated researcher at the Technoscience Research Unit. My dissertation, “Personality, Incorporated,” told a history of corporate personality testing.