Professor Ewa Luger is co-Programme Director of AHRC’s Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme. She works closely with policy-makers and industry and is a member of the DCMS college of experts. She is also co-director of the Responsible NLP Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) for CAHSS.
Ewa’s research explores social, ethical and interactional issues in the context of complex data-driven systems, with a particular interest in design, the distribution of power, spheres of exclusion and user consent. 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 knowledge workers to make use of AI.
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 digital exclusion/skills expert and practitioner (NIACE, 1999-2014) where she worked with marginalised communities. Ewa holds a BA (Hons) in International Relations & Politics, an MA in International Relations, and a PhD in Computer Science.