LCKD External Advisory and Stakeholders Group
Professor Michael C. Anderson,
University of Cambridge
Professor Michael C. Anderson is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, where he leads the Memory Control Lab at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. His research focuses on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying memory control, with the goal of developing interventions for disordered memory control. The lab conducts fundamental research on cognitive control and memory, exploring practical applications that could benefit people. As a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and member of the Psychonomics Society governing board, Dr. Anderson's influential work on memory control has received widespread media attention, featured in outlets including Newsweek, US News and World Report, the New York Times, CNN, BBC World News, and the New Scientist. For more on Prof. Anderson’s work, see here http://www.memorycontrol.net
Dr. Ioannis Arapakis,
Telefonica Research
Dr. Ioannis Arapakis is a Principal Research Scientist at Telefonica Research. He received his Ph.D. in Information Retrieval from the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science, where his thesis focused on offline and online modeling of user behavior in web search.
He holds an M.Sc. degree in Information Technology with specialization in Interactive Systems Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology. Previously, Dr. Arapakis worked as a Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs for four years, where he was an active member of the User Engagement, Web Retrieval, and Ad Processing and Retrieval groups. His research spans multiple areas including pattern recognition, predictive modeling, multimedia mining and search, social media analysis, and machine learning. During his time at Yahoo Labs, he led several internal projects and contributed to various research initiatives. For more on Dr Arapakis’s work, see here https://iarapakis.github.io
Professor Ricardo Baeza-Yates,
Northeastern University
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates is Director of Research of the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University in the Silicon Valley campus. He is also part-time professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona and Universidad de Chile in Santiago. His research interests include algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, Web search and mining, and responsible AI. He is an expert member of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery's US Technology Policy Committee as well as IEEE's Ethics Committee. He is member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences, founding member of the Chilean Academy of Engineering, corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and member of the Academia Europaea. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He is a former member of Spain's Advisory Council on AI (2019-2023). From June 2016 until June 2020 he was CTO of NTENT, a semantic search technology company. Before, until February 2016, he was VP of Research for Yahoo! Labs, leading teams in United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. For more on Prof. Baeza-Yates's work, see https://ai.northeastern.edu/our-people/ricardo-baeza-yates
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Professor Herman Cappelen is Chair Professor of Philosophy and Director of the AI&Humanity-Lab at the University of Hong Kong, His research focuses on the philosophy of AI, conceptual engineering, political discourse foundations, and externalism in philosophy of mind and language. Previously, he held positions at the Universities of Oslo, St Andrews, and Oxford, beginning his career at Vassar College. He also co-directs ConceptLab at both the University of Oslo and Hong Kong, and serves on the Steering Committee of HKU's Institute of Data Science. His previous leadership roles include directing the Arché Philosophical Research Centre at the University of St Andrews and serving as Research Director of CSMN at Oslo. Professor Cappelen has co-led two major AHRC projects: "Contextualism and Relativism" with Crispin Wright and "Intuitions and Philosophical Methodology" with Jessica Brown. He is elected Fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2008), of the Academia Europaea (2018), and a member in the Institut International de Philosophie. He is Editor-in-Chief at Inquiry. For more about Prof. Cappelen’s work, see here https://www.hermancappelen.net/index.html
Professor Herman Cappelen,
University of Hong Kong
Professor Monica Dietl is Executive Director of the Initiative for Science in Europe and Research Director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). Her career spans research in neurobiology and science policy across multiple European institutions. She has conducted research at Pierre and Marie Curie University, the University of Vienna, Sandoz Ltd., and the Collège de France before transitioning to policy roles. Her leadership positions include Coordinator of the Europe Action Plan at the French Ministry for Higher Education Research and Innovation (2019-2022), director of the CNRS Brussels office (2001-2005), and first director of the COST Association (2014-2016). As Senior Policy Officer at the European Commission's Directorate General for Research and Innovation, she contributed to establishing the ERC (2005-2009). For more on Prof. Dietl’s work, see https://initiative-se.eu/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-dietl-719453117/?originalSubdomain=fr
Professor Monica Dietl,
Initiative for Science in Europe
Professor Brian D Earp is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Ethics and, by courtesy, of Philosophy and of Psychology at the National University of Singapore (NUS), as well as a Research Affiliate of the Uehiro Oxford Institute of the University of Oxford. He is an elected member of the UK Young Academy under the auspices of the British Academy and the Royal Society. His research spans multiple areas including relational moral psychology, philosophy of technology, research ethics, reproducibility, open science, ethics of AI and human enhancement, philosophy of love, sex and gender, bodily autonomy and integrity, and children's rights. Professor Earp helped establish "experimental philosophical bioethics" as a distinct research field. He currently directs the Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics & Society and HOPE: The Hub at Oxford for Psychedelic Ethics, an international collaboration with Dr. David Yaden, the Roland R. Griffiths Professor of Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, he serves as Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center. For more on Prof. Earp’s work, see here https://www.brianearp.com
Professor Brian D. Earp,
​University of Singapore
Dr Ryan Field is the CEO/CTO of Kernel, a neurotechnology company dedicated to building actionable insights from high-quality brain data. He previously led the Kernel Flow team and served as CTO at Kernel, overseeing the concept, design, and development of the next-generation Kernel Flow brain imaging system. He is also an inventor with more than 20 granted US patents and published researcher with over a decade of experience building complex imaging systems with custom ASICs and SPADs. He holds a PhD from Columbia in Electrical Engineering and was previously at Intel and Quanergy. For more on Dr Field’s work, see here https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanmfield/
Dr Ryan Field,
Kernel
Professor Sanford Goldberg is Chester D. Tripp Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University, where he works in the areas of Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, and Philosophy of Mind. His interests in Epistemology include such topics as social epistemology, reliabilism, the epistemology of testimony, the theory of epistemic justification, epistemic normativity, self-knowledge, and skepticism. In the Philosophy of Language and Mind, his interests centre on speech act theory, the semantics of speech and attitude reports, the individuation of the propositional attitudes, and externalist theories of mental content and linguistic meaning. He has published many influential books in these areas including Anti-Individualism (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Relying on Others (Oxford University Press, 2010), Assertion (Oxford University Press, 2015), To the Best of Our Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2018), Conversational Pressure (Oxford University Press, 2020), and Foundations and Applications of Social Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2021). For more on Prof. Goldberg’s work, see https://philosophy.northwestern.edu/people/continuing-faculty/goldberg-sanford.html
Professor Sanford Goldberg,
Northwestern University
Professor John Greco holds Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S Chair in Philosophy at Georgetown University. Previously, he was Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and held the Leonard and Elisabeth Eslick Chair in Philosophy at St. Louis University. From 2013 to 2020, he was the editor of the American Philosophical Quarterly. His research interests in epistemology include virtue epistemology, social epistemology, the nature of knowledge, the value of knowledge, and scepticism. Greco is author of several highly influential works, including The Transmission of Knowledge (2020, Cambridge University Press); Achieving Knowledge: A Virtue-theoretic Account of Epistemic Normativity (2010, Cambridge University Press) and Putting Skeptics in Their Place: The Nature of Skeptical Arguments and Their Role in Philosophical Inquiry (2000, Cambridge University Press). For more on Prof. Greco’s work, see here https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/johngreco
Professor John Greco,
Georgetown University
Dr. Alexandros Karatzoglou is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, focusing on Machine Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, and Generative Sequential Models, with particular emphasis on their applications to Recommender Systems. Previously, he served as Director of Telefonica Research in Barcelona. He received his Ph.D. from the Vienna University of Technology, during which time he was also a frequent visiting fellow at the Statistical Machine Learning group at NICTA/ANU in Canberra, Australia. Dr. Karatzoglou is notably the author and maintainer of kernlab, one of the core Machine Learning packages in R. For more on Dr Karatzoglou’s work see here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandroskaratzoglou/?originalSubdomain=ch
Dr. Alexandros Karatzoglou,
Google DeepMind
Professor Joachim Israel Krueger is Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. His research contributions include developing innovative measures of social projection and self-enhancement, creating a new model explaining cooperation in social dilemmas without prosocial motives, providing a pragmatic defence of significance testing, and reformulating Tajfel's accentuation theory. His current research focuses on the volunteer's dilemma, social perception of free riders, and the humility paradox. Dr. Krueger's work has been recognized with numerous honours, including a Fulbright Scholarship (1983-1985), Fellowship of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (1994), Fellowship of the Francis Wayland Collegium for Liberal Learning (1997), membership in the American Psychological Society's Task Force on Self-esteem (2000-2002), Fellowship of the American Psychological Society (2002), and the Humboldt Research Prize (2008-2009, extended 2016). For more on Prof. Krueger’s work, see here https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jkrueger#
Professor Joachim Krueger,
Brown University
Professor Jennifer Lackey,
Northwestern University
Professor Jennifer Lackey is Wayne and Elizabeth Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at Northwestern University, where she directs the Northwestern Prison Education Programme. She is Editor-in-Chief, Episteme, Philosophical Studies, and Subject Editor in Epistemology for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Her current areas of research include epistemic reparations, the right to be known, agential testimonial injustice, the epistemology of punishment, epistemology in the criminal legal system, collective epistemology, and disagreement. Her books include Criminal Testimonial Injustice (2023, OUP), The Epistemology of Groups (2021, OUP), and Learning from Words (2008, OUP). Lackey’s research has won many awards and funding including: North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award for Criminal Testimonial Injustice, the Horace Mann Medal (2023), a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2023-4), an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, her service includes, along with extensive innovation in prison education, leadership as Past President of the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division. For more on Prof. Lackey’s work, see here https://sites.northwestern.edu/jal788/
Professor Michèle Lamont,
Harvard University
Michèle Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. She has researched how we evaluate social worth across societies, the role of cultural processes in fostering inequality, symbolic and social boundaries, and the evaluation of knowledge, as well as topics such as dignity, stigma, racism, class cultures, collective well-being, social resilience, and social change. Her books include Money, Morals and Manners: the Culture of the French and the American Upper-Middle Class (1992), The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration (2000), How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgement (2009), Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the Us, Brazil and Israel (coauthored, 2016), and Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Heal a Divided World (2023). She served as the 108th president of the American Sociological Association in 2016-17. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Society of Canada, and the British Academy. Honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Carnegie Fellowship, Leverhulme Fellowship, the 2014 Gutenberg award, the 2017 Erasmus Prize, the 2024 Kohli Prize for Sociology, and honorary doctorates from six countries. For more on Prof. Lamont's work, see here: https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/michele-lamont
Professor S. Matthew Liao is Director of the Center for Bioethics and Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics at New York University and has previously held appointments at Oxford, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, and Princeton. Liao’s work uses the tools of philosophy to study and examine the ramifications of novel biomedical innovations such as embryonic stem cell research, cloning, artificial reproduction, and genetic engineering; ethical issues raised by the development and use of neuroscientific technologies such as the ethics of erasing traumatic memories; the ethics of mood and cognitive enhancements; and moral and legal implications of "mind-reading" technologies for brain privacy. He has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and other numerous media outlets. Liao is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Moral Philosophy[7] and, in 2019, he was appointed as an Elected Fellow at The Hastings Center. For more on Prof. Liao’s work, see here https://publichealth.nyu.edu/faculty/s-matthew-liao
Professor S. Matthew Liao,
New York University
Professor Brent Mittelstadt is Professor of Data Ethics and Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, where he serves as Director of Research and coordinates the Governance of Emerging Technologies (GET) research programme. He is a leading data ethicist and philosopher specializing in AI ethics, professional ethics, and technology law and policy.
He leads the Trustworthiness Auditing for AI project, a multi-disciplinary initiative with University of Reading, and co-leads the A Right to Reasonable Inferences in Advertising and Financial Services project. His highly cited work spans the ethics of algorithms, AI, and Big Data; fairness and transparency in machine learning; data protection law; group privacy; ethical auditing; digital epidemiology; and ethical design of health monitoring technologies. He has contributed significant policy analyses, technical solutions, and ethical frameworks addressing risks in data-intensive technologies. For more on Prof. Mittelstadt’s work, see https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/brent-mittelstadt/.
Professor Brent Mittelstadt,
Oxford Internet Institute
Dr. Alison Preston,
Ofcom
Dr Alison Preston is Head of Research at the UK’s Office of Communication (Ofcom) where she also directs the Making Sense of Media; previously, she served as Ofcom’s Head of Media Literacy Research. She holds a PhD in Communication and Media from Stirling University. Her initiatives at Ofcom include protecting children under the Online Safety Act. Her research team has recently published two reports on research pilots using Avatar and school survey methods to better understand children’s online lives.. They also commissioned a Children’s Passive Measurement Study to test whether passive methodology can in the future deliver robust metrics of children’s online use. For more on Dr Preston’s work see here https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-preston-b6bb7030/?originalSubdomain=uk
Professor Duncan Pritchard,
UC Irvine
Professor Duncan Pritchard is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California Irvine and Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society. Previously, he served as Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Eidyn Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh. His research primarily focuses on epistemology, encompassing topics such as radical skepticism, theory of knowledge, virtue epistemology, modal epistemology, epistemic luck/risk, social epistemology, understanding, inquiry, and know-how. Professor Pritchard's work extends into applied philosophy, including initiatives bringing philosophy into Scottish prisons, exploring extended cognition in special needs education, and integrating intellectual virtues into the UCI curriculum. He has developed several MOOCs and received notable honours including the Philip Leverhulme Prize and election to the Royal Society of Edinburgh fellowship. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Oxford University Press's Oxford Bibliographies: Philosophy and co-Editor-in-Chief and co-Founder of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. For more on Prof. Pritchard’s work, see here https://www.duncanpritchard.org/about-me
Professor Susanna Schellenberg is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Rutgers University and a Member of the Executive Council Faculty at the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science (RuCCS). Her work focuses on a range of topics in philosophy of mind, epistemology, AI, and neuroscience, including perception, mental representation, consciousness, evidence, knowledge, capacities, imagination, perspectives, and self-representation. In epistemology, she developed a new account of the epistemic force of experience. Currently her research is focused on issues at the intersection of AI, neuroscience, and philosophy funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, and a NEH Grant. I am working on a series of papers on the neural basis of perception and a book on subjective perspectives. For more on Prof. Schellenberg’s work, see here https://susannaschellenberg.org
Professor Susanna Schellenberg,
Rutgers University
Professor Alan F. Smeaton,
Insight Centre for Data Analytics
​Alan F. Smeaton is Professor of Computing and Founding Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University (hosting 400 researchers across 4 Universities in Ireland) . His early research covered the application of natural language processing techniques to information retrieval. This broadened to cover content-based retrieval of information in all media, including text, image, audio and digital video. Alan’s current research interests are around human memory and how we forget and remember some things and not others. Alan focuses on building systems that help people remember and learn. The tools he uses are machine learning and data analytics, and the applications of text, image, and video analysis are in areas like learning analytics, personal sensing, and lifelogging. Alan's research output includes more than 700 publications. He is an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy and Academy Gold Medal Winner, a Fellow of the IEEE and winner of several awards and prizes including the Mark Everingham prize, the Niwa-Takayanagi prize and the Strix award. For more on Prof. Smeaton’s work, see here https://www.dcu.ie/insight/people/alan-smeaton
Professor Ernest Sosa is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University (2007- present), after having previously taught at Brown University from 1964 to 2007. Sosa is a past president of the American Philosophical Association and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and winner of the 2010 Nicolas Rescher Prize. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Canada Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He edits the premier philosophical journals Noûs, and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. In 2005 he delivered the John Locke Lectures at Oxford, which formed the basis of his 2007 book A Virtue Epistemology. Sosa is the world’s pioneering figure in virtue epistemology, where his influential books on the topic include Knowledge in Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1991), A Virtue Epistemology (Oxford University Press, 2007), Reflective Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2009), Knowing Full Well (Princeton University Press, 2011), Judgment and Agency (Oxford University Press, 2015), Epistemology (Princeton University Press, 2017), and Epistemic Explanations (2021). For more on Prof. Sosa’s work, see http://www.erniesosa.com
Professor Ernest Sosa,
Rutgers University
Professor Rachel Sterken is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chairperson of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, where she also serves as Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts. She is the Principal Investigator of "Meaning and Communication in the Information Age," a Norwegian Research Council funded project (2020-2025) examining how linguistic meaning and communication have evolved with advances in information technology, AI, and VR. She currently co-organizes Concept Lab Hong Kong and is a research affiliate at AI & Humanity Lab. Previously, Professor Sterken served as co-director of ConceptLab at the University of Oslo, a Norwegian Research Council funded research centre. She is also Director of the Hong Kong Master in AI, Ethics, and Society, and Executive Editor at Inquiry. Her latest book, Communicating with AI: Philosophical Perspectives (co-edited with Herman Cappelen), is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. For more on Prof. Sterken’s work, see here https://www.rachelsterken.org
Professor Rachel Sterken,
University of Hong Kong
Professor Joseph Uscinski is Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami and a world-leading researcher on conspiracy theories. He is the author of The People's News: Media, Politics, and the Demands of Capitalism (New York University Press, 2014), which examines how audience demands influence news content, and co-author of American Conspiracy Theories (Oxford University Press, 2014) with Joseph M. Parent, which investigates the factors driving belief in conspiracy theories. His research, which focuses on understanding conspiracy theories and their impact, has been published in prestigious academic journals including the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, and Critical Review. For more on Prof. Uscinski’s work, see here:
https://people.miami.edu/profile/60b5fb062f4f266afb6739ec21657c74
Professor Joseph Uscinski,
University of Miami
Dr. Ryen W. White is a Research Scientist, General Manager, and Deputy Lab Director at Microsoft Research in Redmond, where he leads the LEAP (Language, Learning, Audio, Privacy) research area and serves as Affiliate Full Professor at the University of Washington. His leadership roles have included chief scientist at Microsoft Health and leading applied science for Cortana. His research has significantly impacted numerous Microsoft products, including Bing, Xbox, Internet Explorer, Skype, Dynamics, Health, Windows, Cortana, Office, and Azure. Dr. White was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2021 for his contributions to information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and computational health, and is a member of both the ACM SIGIR Academy and ACM SIGCHI Academy. He currently serves as Vice Chair of ACM SIGIR (until 2025) and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on the Web (until 2027). His outstanding contributions to information retrieval were recognized with the 2022 Tony Kent Strix Award. For more on Dr White’s work, see here http://www.ryenwhite.com
Dr. Ryen W. White,
Microsoft Research
Professor Timothy Williamson is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy and Emeritus Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of New College Oxford. He holds numerous prestigious positions and honours, including fellowship in the British Academy, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and membership in the Academia Europaea. He is a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Institut International de Philosophie. He has served as President of both the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, and as Vice-President of the British Logic Colloquium. Professor Williamson has authored several influential books including "Knowledge and its Limits" (Oxford 2000), "The Philosophy of Philosophy" (Wiley-Blackwell 2007), "Modal Logic as Metaphysics" (Oxford 2013), and "Suppose and Tell" (Oxford 2020), along with over two hundred academic articles. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Bucharest and Belgrade, and is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College Oxford. For more on Prof. Williamson’s work, see https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/people/timothy-williamson#tab-414606
Professor Timothy Williamson,
University of Oxford
David Wright,
UK Safer Internet Centre
David Wright is Director of the UK Safer Internet Centre, the national awareness centre and part of the European Insafe network. With extensive experience in online safety and safeguarding, he advises governments and school inspectorates on online safety strategy and policy, particularly regarding schools and curriculum. As a Child Online Protection expert for the United Nations International Telecoms Union, he helps governments develop national COP strategies. He serves on the World Economic Forum Global Coalition for Digital Safety, addressing challenges including misinformation, extremist content, and online child exploitation. He is also a member of UKCIS. Mr. Wright has pioneered several initiatives, including developing multi-award winning resources and establishing a helpline for Revenge Porn victims. His research collaborations with Plymouth, Suffolk, and Bournemouth Universities have produced groundbreaking reports on topics including sexting and school policy assessments. His work focuses on enabling safe technology use while prioritizing child protection. Wright has been awarded a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) as part of the King's Birthday Honours List for 2024. For more on Wright’s work, see here https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwright3/?originalSubdomain=uk