Angela Ngoc Nguyen is a computer science student at Stanford University. She critically examines U.S. surveillance technologies and AI systems through the lens of ethics and policy, with a focus on their impact on marginalized communities. As a child of Vietnamese refugees and first-generation, low-income student from St. Paul, Minnesota, she brings lived experience to ensuring that technological advancements are equitable and inclusive.
At Stanford, Nguyen serves as Student Assistant at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, organizing tech policy programming; leads the Public Interest Technology Lab as President; and co-founded the Stanford Critical AI Working Group. Her work has been recognized as a 2025 CS Ed Week Rising Hero, Stanford Tech Ethics & Policy Fellow, and Stanford VPUE STEM Fellow.
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