About Us
Advancing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the benefit of humanity
Overview
The Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) is a new centre within the University of Cambridge – a world-leading institution with more than 800 years of excellence in education, learning and research.
The founding principle of CHIA is to advance Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the benefit humanity.
The Centre brings together an interdisciplinary community of researchers to investigate the innovative ways in which human and machine intelligence can be combined to yield AI which is capable of contributing to social and global progress.
CHIA pushes the frontiers of knowledge in this interdisciplinary approach to AI, and plays a leading role in educating the next generation of AI scientists in the area.
Designed to deliver both academic and real-world impact, the Centre seeks to partner with academic, industrial, and other organizations that share interest in human-inspired AI.
Mission
Artificial Intelligence is one of the most rapidly developing technologies today. It is predicted to transform much of our society, with far-reaching human implications. While AI has the potential to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems – ranging from poverty to pandemics, and large-scale conflicts to natural disasters – it will need to become more human to unlock this potential.
This next generation AI will not only rely on technological advances, but equally on our understanding of the human existence in all its forms: cognitive, social, creative and biological. It will combine cutting-edge machine intelligence with rich insights contributed by humanities, social, cognitive, brain, biomedical and environmental sciences. An interdisciplinary approach of this nature will yield AI that can best serve humanity.
People
CHIA brings together diverse researchers across the University to innovate next generation, human-inspired AI. It connects academics working in core and applied areas of AI (e.g., within computer science, engineering, mathematics) with world-leading experts in a wide range of human-centric disciplines (e.g., social, cognitive, brain, biomedical, environmental sciences).
The Centre is also the hub where Cambridge academics can work in collaboration with industry and other stakeholders to guide debate on research priorities, trust in new technologies and the societal impact of AI.
Leadership
Anna Korhonen
Director
Professor of Natural Language Processing
Per Ola Kristensson
Co-Director
Professor of Interactive Systems Engineering
John Suckling
Co-Director
Director of Research in Psychiatric Neuroimaging
Jenny Gibson
Associate Director
Professor in Psychology and Education
Fumiya Iida
Associate Director
Professor of Robotics
Anna Moore
Associate Director
NIHR Anna Freud Clinical Lecturer in Child Psychiatry
Ebele Mogo
Postdoc Representative
Researcher in Global Health Innovation
Administration
Abby Scott
CHIA Centre Coordinator
admin@chia.cam.ac.uk
Claire Letellier
CHIA Finance Manager
finance@chia.cam.ac.uk
Irene Pellegero
Communications and Events Administrator
events@chia.cam.ac.uk
Steering Committee
John Aston
Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life
Anna Barford
Prince of Wales Fellow in Pathways to a Circular Economy
Andreas Bender
Professor of Molecular Informatics
Alan Blackwell
Professor of Interdisciplinary Design
Bill Byrne
Professor of Information Engineering
Vasco Carvalho
Professor of Macroeconomics
Nigel Collier
Professor of Natural Language Processing
Ramit
Debnath
Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science and Design
David Erdos
Professor in Law and the Open Society
Mark Girolami
Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering
Hatice Gunes
Professor of Affective Intelligence and Robotics
Peter Harrison
Assistant Professor in Music and Science
Leonardo Impett
Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities
Mateja Jamnik
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Lili Jia
Senior Research Associate in Incentivising Sustainability
Zoe Kourtzi
Professor of Experimental Psychology
Alpha Lee
Winton Advanced Fellow, Royal Society University Research Fellow in Physics
Ella McPherson
Associate Professor in the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology
Gos Micklem
Professor of Computational and Molecular Biology
Christopher Markou
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Law
Sarah Morgan
Accelerate Science Research Fellow
Masashi Narita
Professor of Senobiology
Yaakov Ophir
Postdoctoral Researcher in Clinical Psychology
Christopher Rauh
Professor in Economy
Roi Reichart
Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence
Jason Rentflow
Professor of Personality and Individual Differences
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Emily Shuckburgh
Professor of Environmental Data Science
Jat Singh
Principal Research Associate in Technology and Law
Pingfan Song
Senior Research Associate in Trustworthy Machine Learning
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
Professor of Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
David Trippett
Professor of Music
Richard Turner
Professor of Machine Learning
Adrian Weller
Principal Research Fellow in Machine Learning
Andreas Vlachos
Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing
Ivan Vulić
Royal Society Univesity Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing
