Elana Zeide is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska's College of Law. She teaches, writes, and consults about student privacy, artificial intelligence, and the modern day "permanent record." Her work focuses on how school and workplace technologies impact education, equality, and access to opportunity. Recent publications include Robot Teachers, Pedagogy, and Policy, Student Privacy in the Age of Big Data, and The Structural Consequences of Big Data-Driven Education.

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Zeide previously served as a PULSE Fellow in Artificial Intelligence, Law & Policy at UCLA's School of Law, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University’s School of Law, an Associate Research fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, a Visiting Fellow at Yale School of Law’s Information Society Project, and a Microsoft Research Fellow at New York University's Information Law Institute. She is also an affiliate at Data & Society Research Institute and serves on advisory boards for The Future of Privacy Forum, Macmillan Learning’s Impact Research Advisory Council, and Blackboard’s Taskforce to Develop Framework and Standards for the Ethical and Legal Use of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education.

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Zeide received her B.A. cum laude in American Studies from Yale University, and her J.D. and LL.M. from New York University School of Law where she was a Notes Editor of the New York University Law Review. Elana worked as a Litigation Associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and a Legal Analyst at Bloomberg Media before opening her own privacy, media, and platform law practice. Prior to becoming an attorney, Elana was a journalist and pop culture columnist in London and New York. She believes she is the only person to have both reported for and legally represented The National Enquirer.