ADVISORY BOARD

The role of the Advisory Board is to provide current knowledge, critical thinking and analysis to increase the confidence of the decision-makers at IRCAI.

Renée Cummings

Criminologist, AI Ethicist, Data Activist in Residence, School of Data Science, University of Virginia

Beena Ammanath

Executive Director of Deloitte AI Institute

Kay Firth-Butterfield

Head of the Centre for Trustworthy Technology, World Economic Forum Centres for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network

Maria Fasli

UNESCO Chair in Analytics and Data Science, Executive Dean, Faculty of Science and Health, University of Essex

Kathleen Siminyu

Machine Learning Fellow, Mozilla Foundation

BUSINESS & IMPACT COUNCIL

The Center has setup a Business Council with the main goal to ensure that actions are taken and opportunities realised that will maximise the impact of the work of the centre in addressing SDGs. It will liaise with outside venture capital funds aligned with the centre in order to identify potential opportunities for basic funding as well as spin-out companies arising from different grand challenges and projects. It will provide input to the different Scientific Program Committees to ensure that challenges and projects can be prepared and will maximise the exploitation avenues available.

Massimo Preziuso

Chair of Business and Impact Council

Samira Khan

Global Impact Engagement, Salesforce.org

Chelsea Chen

Chief Business Communication Officer

Daniel Matkovits

Head of Influencer Ecosystems, Professional Services, Global Consulting Industry

Melissa Sassi

Global Head of IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator

Daniel Miodovnik

Director, Social Finance

Andreja Kodrin

CEO Third Millennium Knowledge, Founder Quintaum & Challenge: Future

Ben Younkman

Regional Director for Europe, Village Capital

Simone Severini

Director, Quantum computing, Amazon Web Services, and Professor of Physics of Information, University College London

Cosimo Pacciani

Financial Executive

Suzanne Yuen

Director of Data Science, Salesforce.org

Bianca Lopes

Co-Founder of Talle, Identity & Data Expert

Toby Sparwasser Soroka

Briink

SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD

The Center is launching an interdisciplinary academic journal seeking academic papers that address the application of novel AI techniques to either advancing Sustainable Development or enhancing the measurement of KPIs associated with the SDGs.

John Shawe-Taylor (Editor in Chief)

UCL and IRCAI

Machine Learning, AI, Reinforcement Learning, Statistical Learning Theory, Kernel Methods, Applications

Marko Grobelnik

IRCAI

Large Scale Machine Learning, Digital Twins, Symbolic and Sub-Symbolic Learning

Catherine Holloway

UCL

Assistive Technologies, Human Computer Interaction, User Studies

Colin de la Higuera

University of Nantes and IRCAI

Natural Language Processing, AI and Education, Open Educational Resources

Bolanle Oladejo

University of Ibadan, Nigeria

PC Artificial Intelligence Applications to Knowledge Management

Aidan O'Sullivan

UCL

AI and Energy, Measuring Sustainable Development, Remote Sensing

Delmiro Fernandez-Reyes

UCL

AI and Health, Tropical Diseases, Proteomics and Machine Learning, Signal Processing

Mitja Jermol

IRCAI

AI and Social Science, Circular Economy, Open Educational Resources, AI and Education

James Hodson

Chief Executive Officer, AI for Good Foundation

Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing

Mark Coeckelbergh

University of Vienna

Ethical, Philosophical, Policy And Societal Dimensions of AI

Ricardo Vinuesa

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

AI for Sustainable Dev., Fluid Dynamics And Turbulence

Moses Thiga

Kabarak University

Health Informatics with a Focus on the Use of AI for Health

Yi Zeng

Professor and Director of AI Ethics and AI for SDGs, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beijing Academy of AI

AI Ethics and Sustainable Development

Rayid Ghani

Professor of Machine Learning And Public Policy, CMU

Machine Learning for Social Good, Data Science and Social Networks, Applications of AI in Sustainable Dev.

Wayne Holmes

UCL Institute of Education

AI and Education, Learning Sciences, Social Science

Geraint Rees

University College London

Cognitive Neuroscience, Neural Mechanisms Underlying Human Consciousness in Health And Disease

Vipin Kumar

University of Minnesota

Data Science, High Performance Computing, Climate Change, Sustainable Development

Vanessa Nurock

Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Côte d'Azur (France) and UNESCO EVA Chair (Ethique du Vivant et de l'Artificiel /Ethics of the Living and the Artificial)

Ethical, Philosophical Dimensions of AI

Michael Witbrock

Professor, Waipapa Taumata Rau (The University of Auckland) and AI4Good Foundation

Natural Language, Reasoning, Deep Learning systems, AI for Social Good

Gorazd Andrejč

SRC Koper/University of Groningen

Ethical, Philosophical Dimensions of AI

Hamish Fraser

Brown University

Medical Science, Informatics, Clinical Decision Making, Global Health

CONTACT

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