Alice Siu serves as the Associate Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab and is a Senior Research Scholar at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford's Department of Communication, specializing in political communication, deliberative democracy, and public opinion. Dr. Siu also holds bachelor's degrees in economics, and Public Policy, as well as a master's degree in political science, all from Stanford University. 

In her role, Alice has collaborated with policymakers and political leaders globally, providing guidance on implementing deliberative democratic practices in over 50+ countries and jurisdictions. Her research interests in deliberative democracy include the quality of deliberation, scaling deliberation to K-16, and scaling deliberation through technology for deliberative societies. She leads the AI-assisted Stanford Online Deliberation Platform used in online Deliberative Polls, a collaboration with the Stanford Crowdsourced Democracy Team. She leads the convening of the Industry-Wide Forum, with leading technology companies including Meta, Microsoft, PayPal, DoorDash, and Oracle, that gather public attitudes on AI technologies.