Cyril Birks
Former Research Assistant
Cyril is a doctoral researcher in AI, interested in research at the intersection of moral philosophy, cognitive science, and strategic decision-making under uncertainty.
Research Staff
Chris Cai
Research Assistant
Chris Cai is a Research Assistant working on Professor Helen Margetts’ project entitled 'Conversations Between Governments and Citizens in a Digital Society'.
Dr Alex Edmonds
Postdoctoral Researcher
Alex develops approaches to statistics and machine learning which provide formal privacy guarantees to individuals, using techniques such as local differential privacy.
Dr Florence Enock
Senior Research Fellow
Florence Enock is a Senior Research Fellow researching how interaction with AI shapes human social cognition, particularly in influencing people’s perceptions, expectations and evaluations of others.
Dr Vahid Ghafouri
Postdoctoral Researcher
Vahid is an NLP Researcher attempting to track immigration-related narratives using enhanced sentence transformers and LLMs.
Annabelle Gouttebroze
Former Research Assistant
Annabelle Gouttebroze is a research assistant for the Digital Ethics and Defence Technology Research Group, led by Professor Taddeo.
Dr Laura Hakimi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Laura is a postdoctoral researcher on the ESRC-funded project “Towards equity focused approaches to EdTEch: a socio-technical perspective.” Her research interests lie at the intersection of learning, technology, ethics and inequality.
Ashly Jiju
Research Assistant
Ashly is a Research Assistant with a background in AI, data governance, and geopolitics, bringing global experience in research and strategy for ethical technology and digital inclusion.
Shilpa Mariam Joseph
Research Assistant
Shilpa Mariam Joseph is a Research Assistant at the Fairwork Project. She holds an MSc from LSE and previously worked at the Internet Freedom Foundation on advocacy and fundraising.
Klara Kosar
Research Assistant
Klara Kosar is a Research Assistant at the OII and part of the Science of Startups Initiative.
Shreyansh Padarha
Research Assistant
Shreyansh completed his MSc in Social Data Science and now works as a Research Assistant at the OII with a focus in evaluating safety and performative boundaries of AI models.
Paul Povel
Research Assistant
Paul is a research assistant with a background in business informatics with a focus on data analytics, programming, and social theory. His interests lie in the intersection of technology, society, and economic behaviour.
Sara Rubini
Former Research Assistant
Final-year UCL PhD candidate and Research Assistant at Oxford Internet Institute, studying politically motivated hackers and digital ethics in defence technologies.
Julia Sepúlveda Coelho
Research Assistant
Julia is a Research Assistant for the Digital Good Network, where she is researching the digital good people want when using generative AI on private messaging apps.
Antonia Toffert
Former Research Assistant
Antonia recently completed the MSc. Global Governance & Diplomacy at the University of Oxford’s Department of International Development and is now an OII Research Assistant on Professor Taddeo’s 'Ethics of AI for Defense' project.