Who we are
The list below provides highlights of some of our members. A complete list of members can be viewed on our LinkedIn page: PhD students in AI Ethics.
As at 6th October 2021 we have over 300 members from over 50 countries, representing every continent (except for Antarctica!). Primarily our members are PhD candidates, but we also have Master’s by Research candidates, Postdoctoral researchers, recent PhD graduates, and early career researchers. Some members choose to share their details only on LinkedIn, some others are listed below.
| Name & LinkedIn | Institute | Research | Country |
| Bec Johnson | The University of Sydney | Through a Dark Glass, Clearly: AI ethics through a sociotechnical Lens. A PhD project examining the ethics of artificial neural networks and how they reflect who we are. | Australia |
| Lucía Ortiz de Zárate Alcarazo | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | Analysing behavioral approaches to public policies that involve artificial intelligence and its ethical repercussions (privacy, freedom, autonomy, etc.). | Spain |
| Rob Hanson | Swinburne / Data Standards Body | Using naratives to explain the risks with emerging technology (primarily data privacy) “Fables for Future Technologies”. | Australia |
| Chloe Haden | University of Hertfordshire | To what extent should Artificial Intelligence be regulated to ensure an ethical framework for liability (mainly on human rights, data protection and liability issues of AI). | United Kingdom |
| Anna Puzio | Univ. WWU Münster, HfPh München | Philosophical anthropology and ethics of transhumanism (anthropology of technology). | Germany |
| Tricia Griffin | University of Maastricht | Investigation of the normative and practical applications of AI/ML with a focus on 1) the current internal morality of the field; and 2) how to engage the public in the AI/ML ethics dialogue. | Netherlands |
| Laura Crompton | University of Vienna | Analysis and evaluation of the influence AI (as decision support) can have on human agents. | Austria |
| Corinna Hertweck | University of Zurich | Algorithmic fairness, linking statistical and philosophical conceptions of fairness. | Switzerland |
| Rafaella Nogaroli | Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) | Emerging technologies (medical robotic systems, artificial intelligence, telemedicine) in healthcare: legal and ethical aspects such as informed consent and medical malpractice law. | Brazil |
| Sylvie Saget | University of Gothenburg | Conversational AI (dialog model, cognitive agent theory and architecture, design and conception methods). Study of acceptance as a doxatic state and its consequences on cognitive agency as well as technology acceptance. | Sweden |
| Sheilla Njoto | University of Melbourne | How and to what extent hiring algorithms discriminate against women and feminine language? This interdisciplinary research explores the semantical representation of gender to see to what extent a decision made on the basis of gender is considered discriminatory. | Australia |
| Orhan Önder | Istanbul University | Ethical evaluation of AI applications in clinical medicine. | Turkey |
| Giada Pistilli | Sorbonne Université | Interdisciplinary empirical research on a chatbot for citizens and public administrations/local authorities to facilitate communication between them, while applying ethical principles of AI (established within our ethical charter) to the design, development, deployment of the chatbot itself (UX, NLP, data processing). | France |
| Silvia A. Carretta | Uppsala University – WASP-HS graduate school | Legal accountability of autonomous-thinking AI systems – Researching ethical guidelines for a trustworthy AI and the principle of accountability in relation to self-learning, autonomous AI systems. | Sweden |
| Patricia Gautrin | University of Montreal | PhD – AI Ethics – Automated decision-making – Fair Standards – Risks for Human Rights – SDG16 from UN | Canada |
| Garba Moussa | Nice Sophia Antipolis University | Datascientist consulting to UNESCO | France |
| Chris Boniface | University of Canterbury | The Impact of AI on established medical rights and duties | New Zealand |
| Fabian Beigang | London School of Economics | Algorithmic fairness and causal modelling | UK |
| André Gualtieri | Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo | AI ethics, policies and regulations | Brazil |
| Pietra Quinelato | University of Sao Paulo (USP) | Artificial intelligence and copyright protection. Privacy in personalised pricing algorithms on digital platforms – analysis of the formation of behavior profiles and reserve prices (WTP) for each individual based on automated decisions. | Brazil |
| Thomas Tiotto | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | PhD in Neuromorphic Computing using memristors to model short- and long-term memory. MSc thesis on dialogical Explainable AI: “Explainable AI with Probabilistic Graphical Models”. | Netherlands |
| Natalia Menéndez González | European University Institute | PhD (Algorithmic) accountability for data processing by Facial Recognition Technology: an EU law perspective | Spain |
| Henrietta Lyons | University of Melbourne | Contestability in algorithmic decision-making | Australia |
| Serg Masís | Syngenta / Illinois Institute of Technology | Making interpretabality research approachable to practitioners. | USA |
| Leslye Dias | Ruhr Universität Bochum | Risks and chances of machine learning in medical diagnosis from a normative – risk ethics approach. | Germany |
| Enrico Panai | University of Sassari | Indipendent Audits of AI Systems | Italy |
| Donald Jay Bertulfo | Delft University of Technology | Critical Computing in the Public Interest | Netherlands |
| Julija Kalpoiene | Vytautas Magnus University | Competition between human and AI authors analysing from copright, competition and human rights law perspectives. The use of coprighted material in training AI for commercial purposes. | Lithuania |
| Devesh Narayanan | National University of Singapore | Normative-theoretical undepinnings of explainable AI; algorithmic management & control in organisations | Singapore |
| Matt Hastings | Colorado School of Mines | Ethics of Technology, Education, Critical Theory, Political Economy. Very interested in studying the ethical aspects of creating new technologies – how this work contributes to the flourishing of those doing the inventing. | USA |
| Samuela Marchiori | University of Twente | AI ethics and policy | Netherlands |
| Katleho Mokoena | University of Pretoria | Using indigenous Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu as an ethical lens for the implications of AI in the African context in general and specifically in South Africa. | South Africa |
| Kashif Javed | Zhengzhou University | Judicial AI and risks of Algorithms biasedness | Pakistan |
PhD students in AI ethics 