Partners, Collaborators and Advisory Board

Baroness Kidron OBE is an English film director, producer, children's rights campaigner and member of the UK House of Lords. She is the Founder and Chair of 5Rights Foundation, a thought leader in children’s interactions with the digital world, and a frequent speaker on data protection / AI / and how childhood could and should be better supported in the 21st Century. Her directing career spanned 30 years/ Baroness Kidron is the joint founder of the education charity Filmclub (now Into Film), which uses film to educate children in after-school clubs in the United Kingdom

The NTT Communication Science Laboratories are a global leader in communication science. They conduct work to building a new technical infrastructure that can connect “humans” to “information” in broad terms. They make academic contributions through the creation of new concepts and the discovery of new principles, and social contributions through technological innovation leading to new services. Our key collaborator at NTT is Naomi Yamashita, pictured.

Dr. Ben Wagner is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Privacy and Sustainable Computing Lab at Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is part of the Privacy and Usability training network and a member of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity Advisory Group. His research focuses on technology, human rights and accountable information systems.

Hideaki Kuzuoka is a Professor at the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. His research interests include Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Social Robotics, Virtual Reality and Human Computer Interaction. He has served as an associate chair or Co-Chair of various key ACM/IEEE conferences, including CHI Human Factors in Computing, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, and Human Robot Interaction.

The Oxford Robotics Institute is built from collaborating and integrated groups of researchers, engineers and students all driven to change what robots can do for us. It has a diverse range of interests – such as flying, grasping, inspection, running, haptics, and driving – and researches a broad span of technical topics. These topics include - machine learning and AI, computer vision, fabrication, multispectral sensing, and many more.

Noel is Emeritus Professor of AI and Robotics, and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield. His research has spanned academic disciplines including psychology, computer science, engineering, philosophy and linguistics. Noel is passionate about the responsible use robotics and AI applications; he is co-founder and co-director of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and chairs the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.

Dr Sorin Cheran is Artificial Intelligence Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprises. He has a PhD in Computer Science has been working for Hewlett Packard Enterprises since 2007, where he has been driving AI and the adoption of emerging technologies in industry. He is passionate about ethical and beneficial AI.

Dr Jack Stilgoe is a Senior Lecturer in Social Studies of Science at University College London. His research investigates the governance of emerging technologies. This has included projects focusing on genetically modified crops, nanotechnologies, geoengineering and machine learning. He is currently leading the Driverless Futures? project, which looks at how the new technologies behind automated vehicles will affect society.

Paul Luff is Professor in Organisations and Technology at King’s Business School, King’s College London. His research uses video based methods to understand the collaborative and social accomplishment of action. Paul draws on these studies in collaborations with designers, computer scientists and engineers to inform the development of innovative technologies such as media spaces, augmented technologies, robotics and artificial intelligence systems .

Lilian Edwards is Professor of Law, Innovation and Society, at Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University. She has taught information technology law, e-commerce law, privacy law and Internet law since 1996 and been involved with law and artificial intelligence (AI) since 1985. Amongst many other roles, Lilian has consulted for the EU Commission, the OECD, and WIPO.

Dr Laura James conducts work in diverse settings to deliver practical systems around emerging internet technologies. She is the Head of delivery at lowRISC, a not-for-profit company using collaborative engineering to develop and maintain open source silicon designs and tools. She is also a consultant for the responsible technology think tank Doteveryone and has previously worked as Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

Derek McAuley is Professor of Digital Economy in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, and Director of the interdisciplinary Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute. He also interested in issues of ethics, identity, privacy, information policy, legislation and economics within digital society and has been outspoken on the risks of naive adoption of technology.

Sam Brown is a business coach and the co-founder of Consequential, a community interest company which supports people who invest, accelerate, and scale digital and emerging technologies to build their own responsible innovation practices. Prior to that, she led the programme on responsible innovation at Doteveryone -the responsible technology think tank- working directly with tech organisations to practically apply agile responsible innovation. She was also a senior business management partner in financial technology, collaborating with executives and product teams to deliver award-winning online experiences.

Twitter: @SamCatBrown

Carl is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Psychology at Nottingham University Business School. He is currently researching the governance and safety of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Carl’s work played a key role in the establishment of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), an independent body that investigates safety issues in the NHS, and his book 'Close Calls' examines the practical work involved in analysing and learning from safety incidents in aviation.

Morgan Dumitru studies and develops sociotechnical systems that enable a more sustainably and equitably prosperous future. Currently, he is a scientist at Amazon, where he conducts research on sociotechnical systems and drives the adoption of responsible research and innovation best practices. He is also an advisory board member for the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society.

Silas Adekunle is a Nigerian-British, Robotics Technology Entrepreneur, Engineer and Inventor. He was previously CEO of Reach Robotics, a company he founded during his undergraduate studies and which launched the STEAM and Robotics education platform MekaMon. Silas has also launched robotics programmes in UK and African schools to inspire young people and is currently focused on a robotics enablement platform for Africa and an A.I. Support Engine for Service Robots.