Professor Ewa Luger is co-Programme Director of AHRC’s Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID). She also codirects the EPSRC Responsible NLP CDT at the University of Edinburgh. Working closely with policymakers and industry, she is a member of the DCMS college of experts and the leadership council for the Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Future of Privacy Forum).

Research

Ewa’s research explores social, ethical, and interactional issues in the context of AI and other complex data-driven systems, with a particular focus on policy, design, spheres of exclusion and consent of the user. Past projects have focused on responsible AI, voice systems and language models in use, application of AI in journalism and public service media, intelligibility of AI and data driven systems to expert and non-expert users, security and safety of systems in the cloud and at the edge, and the readiness of accounting institutions and knowledge workers to make use of AI.

Projects

Since 2016, Ewa has been investigator on over £40 million of externally-funded projects (EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, Centre for Digital Built Britain and DataLab) since 2016. She is currently Co-PI of the AHRC Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme, Co-I on the EPSRC Fixing the Future project, and collaborator on the UKRI Digital Twinning Network (DTNet+) and Co-I on the Responsible NLP CDT. Ewa is also an organiser of Conversations, an annual international workshop on chatbot research, since 2015.

Background

Previously a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Researcher at Microsoft, Fellow of Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge), and consultant ethicist for Microsoft Research (2016-2020). She builds upon 15 years as a lifelong learning expert and practitioner (NIACE, 1999-2014) where she investigated digital inclusion within marginalised communities. Ewa holds a BA (Hons) in International Relations & Politics, an MA in International Relations and a PhD in Computer Science.