UnBias Research Team

Monica Cano Gomez

Research Assistant at Horizon Digital Economy ResearchComputer Science at the University of Nottingham


Sofia Ceppi

Research Associate at the Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh


Helen Creswick

Research Assistant at Horizon Digital Economy ResearchComputer Science at the University of Nottingham


 Alan Davoust

Research Associate at the Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh


 Liz Dowthwaite

Research Assistant at Horizon Digital Economy ResearchComputer Science at the University of Nottingham


Giles Lane

Artist & Designer. Director, Proboscis  & External Research Associate, Human Centred Computing, University of Oxford

Marina Jirotka

Professor of Human Centred Computing and head of the Human Centred Computing GroupDepartment of Computer Science at the University of Oxford


Ansgar Koene

Ansgar Koene photoAnsgar Koene is a Senior Research Fellow and Co-Investigator on the UnBias project at Horizon Digital Economy Research (University of Nottingham). Prior to UnBias he worked on the CaSMa project. He has a multi-disciplinary research background, having worked and published on topics ranging from bio-inspired Robotics, AI and Computational Neuroscience to experimental Human Behaviour/Perception studies. Prior to joining Horizon, Ansgar worked at the University of Utrecht (Utrecht, the Netherlands), INSERM (Lyon, France), UCL (London, UK), ATR (Kyoto, Japan), NTU (Taipei, Taiwan), University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK), RIKEN BSI (Tokyo, Japan) and University of Birmingham (Birmingham, UK).

As part of UnBias, Ansgar is focusing on stakeholder engagement for the development of policy recommendations. In addition to his work on UnBias and the CaSMa research theme, Ansgar also actively engages with the Horizon Policy Impact agenda which seeks to support local, national and international policy initiatives with the knowledge and expertise of the Horizon Digital Economy Research institute.

You can find Ansgar on Twitter (@arkoene), Facebook (/arkoene) and LinkedIn (/akoene).


Derek McAuley

Professor of Digital Economy in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham and Director of Horizon


Menisha Patel

Research Assistant in the Human Centred Computing Group, Department of  Computer Science at the University of Oxford


Elvira Perez Vallejos

close up Elvira Perez Vallejos is a Senior Research Fellow and Co-Investigator on the UnBias project (Horizon Institute for Digital Economy Research at the University of Nottingham). Her research background is broad and heterogeneous including speech perception, language production (i.e., psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics) and also translational research on hearing, and applied research on clinical communication and mental health. She is a member of the Institute of Mental Health and deputy lead of the Integrated Research Group (IRG) Children and Young People Focussed Group at Social Futures. Elvira has always been fascinated by the unavoidable interaction between humans and technology. Relevant for the CasMa project is her recent work on Health Communication and e-Language applying corpus linguistics to ‘big data’ derived from internet users accessing specialised platforms such as www.youngminds.org.uk which focus on promoting children and young people mental health.


Virginia Portillo

Research Assistant at Horizon Digital Economy ResearchComputer Science at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on engaging with young people to promote digital literacy and map users’ recommendations to guide the development of regulation, design and educational resources to tackle unnecessary bias in algorithm driven platforms. Key areas are: meaningful transparency and trust by design; the IoT at home – understanding users’ decision making processes; STEM public engagement and outreach.


Michael Rovatsos

Senior Lecturer at the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh, and Director of the Centre For Intelligent Systems and their Applications. His research focuses on making AI more human-friendly by developing algorithms and architectures that are able to understand humans and support collaboration between them. Making AI safe and ensuring it behaves in responsible ways is an important part of this vision.


Helena Webb

Senior Researcher, Human Centred Computing GroupDepartment of Computer Science at the University of Oxford


 

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