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Maura Grossman

Also known as Maura R. Grossman

Maura Grossman is a lawyer and research professor whose research applies artificial intelligence to legal document review and studies how courts can handle AI-generated evidence. She earned a bachelor's degree at Brown in 1980, a master's degree and a doctorate in psychology at Adelphi's Derner Institute in 1982 and 1984, and a law degree at Georgetown in 1999. With Gordon Cormack, she showed in 2011 that technology-assisted review could outperform manual review, published a glossary in 2013, and made continuous active learning more autonomous in 2015. She applied continuous active learning to COVID-19 evidence searches in 2020, received the Shira Scheindlin Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021, and coauthored The GPTJudge on AI-generated evidence in 2023. In November 2025, she co-directs a CIFAR network on synthetic AI content in courts; as of October 2026, she is a research professor at Waterloo and holds two 2026 honors for legal innovation and AI governance.

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Timeline

  1. 1980–1999

    Psychology and law degrees

    She earns an A.B. from Brown University in 1980, an M.A. in 1982 and a Ph.D. in 1984 at Adelphi University's Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, then earns a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1999.

  2. 2011–2015

    Technology-assisted review and CAL

    In 2011, she and Gordon V. Cormack show that technology-assisted review can outperform exhaustive manual review, using data from the TREC 2009 Legal Track. In 2013, they publish the Grossman–Cormack Glossary of Technology-Assisted Review, defining terms across machine learning, information retrieval, statistics, sampling and legal document review. In 2015, they make continuous active learning more autonomous by removing topic-specific and dataset-specific tuning parameters.

  3. 2016–2019

    From Wachtell to Waterloo

    In June 2016, she moves to Waterloo after 17 years at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she represents Fortune 100 companies and major financial institutions in civil litigation and white-collar criminal and regulatory investigations. In January 2019, she becomes Waterloo's second Director of Women in Computer Science and is a Research Professor at the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science.

  4. 2020

    CAL for COVID-19 evidence

    In 2020, she and Cormack apply Continuous Active Learning to automate literature searches for systematic reviews of COVID-19 treatments and infection prevention in long-term care.

  5. 2021

    A lifetime achievement award

    In 2021, she receives the Shira Scheindlin Lifetime Achievement Award.

  6. 2023–2025

    AI evidence in courts

    In 2023, she coauthors The GPTJudge with Paul W. Grimm, Daniel G. Brown, and Molly (Yiming) Xu; the article examines whether real or deepfake GenAI output should be admitted as trial evidence. In November 2025, she co-directs CIFAR's Safeguarding Courts from Synthetic AI Content Solution Network with University of Toronto professor Ebrahim Bagheri.

  7. 2026

    AI governance and legal awards

    In 2026, she is named one of the 50 Top Legal Innovators in Academia and receives an IEEE Standards Association Working Group Award for contributions to developing the IEEE P2863 Recommended Practice on organizational governance of artificial intelligence.

  8. As of October 2026

    Waterloo research professor

    She is a Research Professor at the University of Waterloo's David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute, and principal of Maura Grossman Law.

Career

  1. NowUniversity of WaterlooDirector of Women in Computer Science
  2. NowYork UniversityAdjunct Professor
  3. NowVector InstituteFaculty Affiliate
  4. NowMaura Grossman LawPrincipal
  5. Until 2016Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & KatzLawyer

Education

  1. 1999Georgetown UniversityJ.D.
  2. 1984Adelphi UniversityPh.D.
  3. 1982Adelphi UniversityM.A.
  4. 1980Brown UniversityA.B.

From the biography.

  1. Of 216 AI researchers who entered public life, 83 held advisory seats and 58 took public rolesIncludes Maura Grossman. Of 216 AI researchers who entered public life, 83 held advisory seats and 58 took public roles. Another 97 people moved from public careers into AI organizations or research, with 62% of dated records starting from 2020 on.
  2. Of 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google, 446 work there nowIncludes Vector Institute. Our estimates of where the 943 people shaping AI who worked at Google and Google DeepMind work now: 446 at Google and 452 across 278 other organizations.
  3. Nonprofit roles are 2.3 times as common in AI safetyIncludes Vector Institute. We estimate where people focused on safety, alignment and evaluation work. Nonprofit roles appear for 25.1% of safety people with known affiliations, compared with 11.0% in other areas.
  4. Universities (31%) and startups and other companies (25%) employ the largest shares of 2020–2026 entrantsIncludes Vector Institute. Among 819 people whose first recorded role started in 2020–2026 and who have a known current organization, 60% work in commercial sectors (25% at startups and other companies, 23% at frontier labs and 13% at big tech, with 9 in two), and 31% work at universities, compared with 66% for earlier entrants.

Sources and credits

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  1. Maura R. Grossman | Cheriton School of Computer Science | University of Waterloo cs.uwaterloo.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Maura Grossman named Director of Women in Computer Science uwaterloo.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. Technology-Assisted Review in E-Discovery Can Be More Effective and More Efficient Than Exhaustive Manual Review scholarship.richmond.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. The Grossman–Cormack Glossary of Technology-Assisted Review grossman.uwaterloo.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. Autonomy and Reliability of Continuous Active Learning for Technology-Assisted Review arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. Meet the lawyer disrupting her profession uwaterloo.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. Using technology-assisted review to find effective treatments and procedures to mitigate COVID-19 uwaterloo.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Maura R. Grossman receives two recognitions for work at intersection of law, data governance, and AI uwaterloo.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. The GPTJudge: Justice in a Generative AI World scholarship.law.duke.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  10. Computer science professors receive new CIFAR grants to address AI safety in Canada and the Global South uwaterloo.ca. Checked 21 October 2026.