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 Tom Rodden CBE FRS FREng FBCS FACM
Chair Executive Management Team (EMT)Professor of Computing, Co-director of the Mixed Reality Laboratory and incoming Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange, University of Nottingham.
Specialist Area: Development of interactive cooperative systems as part of multidisciplinary teams.
Professor Joel Fischer
Cornerstone PIProfessor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Nottingham
Specialist Area: Human AI Interaction
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 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 Gina Neff
Deputy Chief Executive OfficerProfessor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University London; Executive Director, Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge; Associate Director of the ESRC Digital Good Network; Serves on the boards of the Social Science Research Council, the Institute for the Future of Work and Reset.tech.
Specialist Area: Social Impact of Technology
Professor | Yr Athro Matt Jones
Chief Operating Officer (COO)Professor of HCI and EPSRC Research Fellow in human-centred interactive AI.
Specialist Area: Human-Computer Interaction
Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng MAE FIET
Chair, International Ambassadors CouncilRegius Professor of Computer Science and Director Web Science Institute, University of Southampton.
Specialist Area: Web Science; Artificial Intelligence; Data Science; Semantic Web
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
Professor Dame Muffy Calder DBE FREng FRSE FBCS FIEE
Chair Skills PillarVice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering, University of Glasgow
Specialist Area: Sensor-based Systems; Privacy Intrusion and National Security
Professor Sana Khareghani
Chair Public Engagement, Outreach and Policy (PEOP) PillarConsultant and advisor in AI; Professor of Practice in AI at King’s College London, Board member Technovation (non-profit organisation bringing under-represented girls into Tech / AI), Advisor to Tortoise Media AI Index, former Head of UK Gov Office for AI, former co-chair of OECD AI Compute Taskforce
Specialist Area: Policy, Strategy at intersect of Tech & Business, Responsible AI
Professor Máire O’Neill FREng, FIAE, MRIA
Chair Enterprise and Innovation Pillar
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.
Professor Elvira Perez Vallejos
Chair Equities PillarProfessor of Mental Health and Digital Technology, University of Nottingham; Institute of Mental Health, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre Nottingham, and School of Computer Science, Responsible Digital Futures.
Specialist Area: Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Healthcare, Digital Mental Health
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 Jack Stilgoe
Professor of Science and Technology Policy, University College London; Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute; Trustee of the Royal Institution.
Specialist Area: Responsible Innovation; Governance of New Technologies; Public Engagement with Science
Dr Caitlin Bentley
Deputy Chair Skills PillarLecturer in AI Education, King’s College London; Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms, MASSPeople, Cybernetics Society, Royal Geographical Society.
Specialist Area: AI Education, RRI, Systems Thinking, Feminist AI, Intersectionality, Critical Theory, ICT4D, Open Development