Lujain is a DPhil student in Social Data Science at the OII. Her research sits at the intersection of AI governance and human-centred computing, particularly examining how user autonomy and control are undermined in human-AI interactions. She also researches global AI governance with a focus on US-China relations.
She was formerly a fellow at Digital Asia Hub — a Harvard Berkman-Klein incubated think tank — and The Montreal AI Ethics Institute, a Creative Media Awardee at The Mozilla Foundation, and a researcher at the Laboratory for Computer-Human Intelligence at NYU Abu Dhabi.
A Schwarzman Scholar, Lujain holds an MA in Global Affairs with concentrations in technology & policy from Tsinghua University in Beijing and a BS in Computer Engineering from New York University, Abu Dhabi.
AI governance and policy, fairness, accountability, and transparency in machine learning; human-computer interaction, U.S.-China relations.
This programme supports research on AI, Government and Policy.
This project investigates how human control is currently undermined in human-AI interactions. It presents sociotechnical approaches to examine mechanisms of control, and empower people in their interactions with increasingly advanced AI systems.
9 November 2023
Eight OII DPhil students have received Dieter Schwarz Foundation (DSF) funding to enable them to begin a 12-month research project during the course of their studies.
8 June 2023
Experts from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) are calling for better access to platform data for academic and civil society research, in order to understand the impact of platform algorithms
DPhil Programme Director (SDS), Lecturer
Luc investigates privacy harms posed by large-scale collections of human data and deployed AI technologies, identifying gaps in how technology is regulated and risks are documented, and proposing better data sharing models for academic research.
Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy
Ana Valdivia is a critical artificial intelligence scholar. Her research explores how datafication and algorithmic governance shape social, economic and political worlds. Her work focuses on the role of technology in the fields of migration & gender.
