Rishi Bommasani is completing a PhD in computer science at Stanford University and is the society lead at the Stanford Center for Research on Foundation Models.

Prior to Stanford, Bommasani studied at Cornell under Claire Cardie. Bommasani's research, which studies the societal impact of AI (especially foundation models), has been featured in The Atlantic, Axios, Bloomberg, Euractiv, Fast Company, Financial Times, Fortune, The Information, MIT Technology Review, The New York Times, Politico, Quanta, Rappler, Reuters, Tech Policy Press, VentureBeat, The Verge, and Vox.