About

Elizabeth Black is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Informatics, where she is a member of the Reasoning and Planning research group. She is the Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, which brings together academics from King's College London and Imperial College London to deliver a 4-year PhD programme focussed on the use of model-based artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for ensuring the safety and trustworthiness of AI systems.

She also serves as a member of the steering committee of COMMA international conference series on Computational Models of Argument, and as an Editorial Board Member of the journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems.

Professor Black is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

She received her PhD in Computer Science from University College London in 2007, on the topic of argument inquiry dialogues. Prior to joining King's in 2011, Elizabeth worked as a post-doctoral research assistant at the University of Oxford and held a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship at the University of Utrecht.

Research interests

• Safe and trusted artificial intelligence
• Intelligent agents and multi-agent systems
• Argumentation theoretic models of agent reasoning, communication and dialogue
• Strategic considerations for argumentation-based dialogues
• Responsible development of artificial intelligence technologies

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