The Researchers
Nine researchers. Nine fields. One institution. Each using artificial intelligence to push the boundaries of what is possible in their discipline.
Alison Noble
Technikos Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering Science
In healthcare, people must remain at the heart of AI. Technologies come and go; the real challenge is knowing when, and when not, to trust them.
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Ana Namburete
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
Using AI to rethink how we understand early brain development – and making sure those tools work for patients everywhere.
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Charlotte Deane
Professor of Structural Bioinformatics, Department of Statistics
Using AI to make drug discovery faster, cheaper and more open.
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Héloïse Stevance
Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Physics
Building virtual research assistants that help astronomers find exploding stars – and asking what we risk losing when we let a machine decide what is boring.
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Jun Zhao
Senior Researcher, Department of Computer Science
The data being collected from children learning to count was being sent to third parties. When Jun Zhao found out, her own children were among them.
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Konstantina Vogiatzaki
Associate Professor of Engineering Science, Somerville College
The systems most likely to fail are the ones hardest to test. She is building the tools to understand them anyway.
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Marina Jirotka
Professor of Human Centred Computing, Department of Computer Science
We didn’t really understand intelligence. We still don’t. The most important question has never been how these systems work – but what they do to the people who use them.
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Natalia Ares
Associate Professor of Engineering Science, Department of Engineering Science
The aim is not simply to build a faster computer. It is to build one that can do things no computer has ever done.
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Noa Zilberman
Professor and Head of the Computing Infrastructure Group, Department of Engineering Science
When asked whether AI is sustainable, her answer is direct. ‘Currently it’s not.’ She’s working on fixing it.
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