Dr Rose Saikayasit
Head of Transformation
Dr Lucy Veale
Head of Projects
Dr. Damian Eke
University of Nottingham representative ECR BoardDamian Okaibedi Eke is a Transitional Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.
His research interests cover critical philosophical issues at the intersection of Technology, Data and Society including; Ethics and Governance of data and AI, Philosophy of Technology, Responsible Innovation and ICT4D.
Professor Bashar Nuseibeh FREng MRIA MAE FACM FIET FBCS
Chair Research PillarBashar Nuseibeh is a Professor of Computing and Head of Software Engineering and Design at The Open University. Previously, he served as Chief Scientist of Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre – and Head of the Software Engineering Laboratory at Imperial College London. He is an Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), and a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, and the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. In recent years Bashar’s interdisciplinary research has focused on responsible software engineering and on the engineering of resilient socio-technical and cyber-physical systems.
He has received many research and service awards across multiple disciplines, including research awards in software engineering, logic programming, security & privacy, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. He is the recipient of the 2025 Harlan D Mills Award. Bashar’s work has been supported continuously by UKRI for over 30 years (including an EPSRC Platform Grant), with €120M+ additional peer-reviewed funding from wide range of other sources, including the European Research Council (ERC) (for Advanced and Proof-of-concept Grants) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) (for 4 major Centre awards). His research has been applied or commercialised in domains including air traffic control, security & policing, and health & social care. He has held many senior editorial positions including serving as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems and of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has published over 300 papers and 5 patents, and recently co-edited an open access textbook on an Introduction to Digital Humanism. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM, BCS, ICS & IET, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea. For more information, see: Bashar Nuseibeh
Professor Joel Fischer
Cornerstone PIProfessor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Nottingham
Specialist Area: Human AI Interaction
Dr Shoaib Ehsan
Deputy Chair Equities PillarAssociate Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton; Reader in Spatial AI for Robotics and Autonomous Systems, University of Essex.
Professor Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn FIET
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Southampton; Director, UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Hub; Co-Director of the Shell-Southampton Centre for Maritime Futures; Co-CEO Empati Ltd (AI startup working on decentralised green hydrogen technologies).
Specialist Area: Responsible AI for socio-technical applications including energy systems and disaster management.
Professor | Yr Athro Matt Jones
Chief Operating Officer (COO), Deputy Chair Research PillarProfessor of HCI and EPSRC Research Fellow in human-centred interactive AI.
Specialist Area: Human-Computer Interaction
Professor Kate Devlin
Deputy Chair Public Engagement, Outreach and Policy PillarProfessor in AI and Society, King’s College London.
Specialist Area: Human-centred AI; Technology and Intimacy
Professor Máire O’Neill, FREng, FIAE, MRIA
Regius Professor in Electronics and Computer Engineering Queen’s University Belfast, Director, UK Research Institute in Secure Hardware and Embedded Systems (RISE), Director, Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), Member, AI Council.
Specialist Area: Applied Cryptography, Hardware Security & the application of AI in Hardware Security.
Aled Lloyd Owen
Chief of StaffProfessor of Enterprise University of Southampton, Advisory Board Member All Party Parliamentary Group on AI
Specialist Area: AI Regulation and Compliance; National Security & Technology