Aparna Komarla

Responsible AI Fellow and Founder of Redo.io
Duke University School of Law

Aparna Komarla is a Responsible AI Fellow at Duke University School of Law and the founder of Redo.io, where she leads the development of transparent and interpretable AI systems for justice reform. Incubated at LexLab at UC Law San Francisco in 2024, Redo.io has partnered with the Three Strikes Project at Stanford Law, the Office of the State Public Defender, and county public defender offices on resentencing initiatives.

Prior to founding Redo.io, Aparna created the COVID in Custody Project and built a comprehensive dataset on COVID-19 in California jails. Her research has been published by the UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project and the Nevada Law Journal, and she has also worked as a Data Scientist at Intel and the UC Berkeley Computational Culture Lab. Aparna holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Davis, and is pursuing an M.S. in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University.