Perspectives on AI: lightning talks

Watch a series of seven-minute research presentations from a range of AI researchers across King's College London. Topics include AI-human cooperation, financial crime, coding a cure for schizophrenia, AI in Higher Education, the evolution of human knowledge, and AI and the reproduction of structural violence.

Speakers

Arunav Das is a PhD Researcher with the Department of Informatics at King's College London as well as a Research Fellow at The Open Data Institute. Arunav’s research focuses on building multimodal and omnichannel Question Answering System over structured, semi structured and unstructured data combining the advances in data streaming devices with state of art developments in the field of Knowledge Graphs, Large Language Models and NLP and with particular emphasis on data provenance, consent, privacy, AI Safety and Responsible AI.

Dr Yali Du is a Lecturer in AI at King’s College London, and a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. She leads the Cooperative AI Lab. Her research aims to enable machines to exhibit cooperative and responsible behaviour in intelligent decision making tasks. Her work focuses on reinforcement learning and multi-agent cooperation, with topics such as generalization, zero-shot coordination, evaluation of human and AI players, and social agency (e.g., human-involved learning, safety, and ethics).

Dr Aleksandra Jordanoska is a Senior Lecturer at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. She has research expertise in financial crime and corporate crime, the regulation of financial technologies (FinTech), and the governance of financial markets.

Maximin Lange is a PhD student at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. His main project is building an algorithm that can 'prescribe' jobs to people with mental health disorders.

Nika Mahnic is a final year PhD candidate in Politics at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Their doctoral research, titled Programmable infrastructures and state (de)formation, is a historically-informed analysis of the British digital state (trans)(re)formation. At King’s College London, they work as a Graduate Teaching Fellow in Civil and Political Rights. 

Dr Ilia Protopapa is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer UK) of Marketing at King's College London. Her areas of expertise and interest include branding, consumer behaviour, diversity and inclusion, higher education and pedagogy.

This event is in-person only. Please register on Eventbrite.

This event is part of the King's Festival of Artificial Intelligence, running from Tuesday 21 to Saturday 25 May 2024.

If you’re interested in this event, you may also want to join us for:

• MERCY: Exploring the experience of justice through AI
• Beyond AI safety: can we make the AI revolution socially sustainable?

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