November 11, 2026
Baumgaertel, Ramjee, KhudaBukhsh, and Bobbili examine AI in sentencing decisions
Noah Baumgaertel, a fourth-year political science and industrial design student, and Divya Ramjee, assistant professor of criminal justice, presented “AI Tools and Sentencing Decisions: Analysis of Pennsylvania Sentencing Data for Legal Financial Obligations” at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management conference on Nov. 7. Co-authored with Ashique KhudaBukhsh, assistant professor of software engineering, and Sreeja Reddy Bobbili, a data science graduate student, the paper uses Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing data to assess the accuracy of AI tools for judges and examine technical, legal, and ethical issues surrounding their use in sentencing.
