Elena Simperl
Director of Research, ODI
Elena Simperl is the ODI’s Director of Research and a Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London. She is also a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a senior member of the Society for the Study of AI and Simulation of Behaviour, and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow.
Elena’s research is in human-centric AI, exploring socio-technical questions around the management, use, and governance of data in AI applications. According to AMiner, she is in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade. She also features in the Women in AI 2000 ranking.
In her 15-year career, she has led 14 national and international research projects, contributing to another 26. She leads the ODI’s programme of research on data-centric AI, which studies and designs the socio-technical data infrastructure of AI models and applications. Elena chaired several conferences in artificial intelligence, social computing, and data innovation. She is the president of the Semantic Web Science Association.
Elena is passionate about ensuring that AI technologies and applications allow everyone to take advantage of their opportunities, whether that is by making AI more participatory by design, investing in novel AI literacy interventions, or paying more attention to the stewardship and governance of data in AI.
Content by Elena Simperl
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The ODI's vision for data-centric AI
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Fostering a thriving PETs ecosystem
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A data for AI taxonomy
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How to build a National Data Library
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Generative AI tools for data discovery and use
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PETs in practice 3
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PETs in Practice 2
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Responsible data stewardship
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Large language models
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Generative artificial intelligence in education
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PETs in Practice 1
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A week in data and AI - the ODI’s key takeaways
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Where is participatory data now?
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Course collaborations
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Placements and secondments
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Fellowships
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A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation
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