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Professor Chris Russell

Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government & Policy., Research Associate

Professor
Chris Russell

Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government & Policy., Research Associate

About

Chris Russell is the Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government and Policy.

Dr Russell’s work lies at the intersection of computer vision and responsible AI. His career to date illustrates a commitment to exploring the use of AI for good, alongside responsible governance of algorithms.

His recent work on mapping for autonomous driving won the best paper award at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). He has a wide-ranging set of research interests, having worked with the British Antarctic Foundation to forecast arctic melt; as well as creating one of the first causal approaches to algorithmic fairness. His work on explainability with Sandra Wachter and Brent Mittelstadt of the OII is cited in the guidelines to the GDPR and forms part of the TensorFlow “What-if tool”.

Dr Russell has been a research affiliate of the OII since 2019 and is a founding member of the Governance of Emerging Technology programme, a research group that spans multiple disciplines and institutions looking at the socio-technical issues arising from new technology and proposing legal, ethical and technical remedies. Their research focuses on the governance and ethical design of algorithms, with an emphasis on accountability, transparency, and explainable AI.

Prior to joining the OII, he worked at AWS, and has been a Group Leader in Safe and Ethical AI at the Alan Turing Institute, and a Reader in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey.

Research Interests

Algorithmic Fairness, Explainable AI, machine learning, computer vision.

Positions at the OII

  • Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor, AI, Government & Policy., September 2023 -
  • Research Associate, December 2019 -

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