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 of 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 organisations 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.
Anna Korhonen
Director
Professor of Natural Language Processing, MPhil Co-Director
Per Ola Kristensson
Co-Director
Professor of Interactive Systems Engineering
John Suckling
Co-Director
Director of Research in Psychiatric Neuroimaging
Jenny Gibson
Co-Director
Professor in Psychology and Education, MPhil Co-Director
Ramit Debnath
Executive Director
University Assistant Professor and CHIA Executive Director
Fumiya Iida
Associate Director
Professor of Robotics
Anna Moore
Associate Director
NIHR Anna Freud Clinical Lecturer in Child Psychiatry
Mateja Jamnik
Associate Director
Professor of Artificial Intelligence
Hatice Gunes
Associate Director
Professor of Affective Intelligence and Robotics
Abby Scott
CHIA Centre Coordinator
admin@chia.cam.ac.uk
Claire Letellier
CHIA Research Grants Coordinator
finance@chia.cam.ac.uk
Alfie Tiplady
Postgraduate Coordinator
education@chia.cam.ac.uk
Olivia Slack
Communications and Events Administrator
comms@chia.cam.ac.uk
Zuzana Toci
Administrative Assistant
assistant@chia.cam.ac.uk
John Aston
Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life
Anna Barford
Director of the Business Fights Poverty Institute
Alan Blackwell
Professor of Interdisciplinary Design
Alexandra Brintrup
Professor in Digital Manufacturing
Bill Byrne
Professor of Information Engineering
Vasco Carvalho
Professor of Macroeconomics
Nigel Collier
Professor of Natural Language Processing
William Farr
Assistant Professor of Education
David Erdos
Professor in Law and the Open Society
Mark Girolami
Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering
Peter Harrison
Assistant Professor in Music and Science
Leonardo Impett
Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities
Lili Jia
Research Professor in Sustainable Economy
Anna Korhonen
Director
Professor of Natural Language Processing, MPhil Co-Director
Zoe Kourtzi
Professor of Experimental Psychology
Emily Lines
Associate Professor in Physical Geography
Anil Madhavapeddy
Professor of Planetary Computing
Ella McPherson
Associate Professor in the Sociology of New Media and Digital Technology
Gos Micklem
Professor of Computational and Molecular Biology
Robert Mullins
Professor in Computer Architecture
Masashi Narita
Professor of Senobiology
Christopher Rauh
Professor of Economics and Data Science
Roi Reichart
Professor in Artificial Intelligence
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Emily Shuckburgh
Professor of Environmental Data Science
Jat Singh
Principal Research Associate in Technology and Law
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
Steven Watson
Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Studies
Minja Axelsson
Teaching Fellow
Julie Bailey
Teaching Fellow
Umang Bhatt
Assistant Professor in Trustworthy AI
Ramit Debnath
Executive Director
University Assistant Professor and CHIA Executive Director
Jenny Gibson
Co-Director
Professor in Psychology and Education, MPhil Co-Director
Ariel Goldstein
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science and AI
Lili Jia
Research Professor in Sustainable Economy
Anna Korhonen
Director
Professor of Natural Language Processing, MPhil Co-Director
Giulia Occhini
Teaching Fellow
Ulla Petti
ECC Programme Manager, Teaching Fellow
Malak Sadek
Deputy Director of MPhil, Teaching Associate
John Suckling
Co-Director
Director of Research in Psychiatric Neuroimaging
Alfie Tiplady
Postgraduate Coordinator
education@chia.cam.ac.uk
Ulla Petti
ECC Programme Manager, Teaching Fellow
Hannah Claus
Early Career Community Committee, Language Technology Lab
Sonia Fereidooni
Early Career Community Committee, Digital Humanities
Alva Markelius
Early Career Community Committee, Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory
Abdullah Safir
Early Career Community Committee, Collective Intelligence & Design Group
Matthieu Téhénan
Early Career Community Committee, Department of Computer Sciences and Technology
Dequn Teng
Early Career Community Committee, Institute for Manufacturing
Sonja Tervola
Early Career Community Committee, Department of Education
Jim Ang
Affiliated Fellow
John Burden
Affiliated Fellow
Lucy Cheke
Associate Fellow
José Hernández-Orallo
Associate Fellow
Shekhar Anand Jha
Affiliated Fellow
Sander van der Linden
Associate Fellow
Pietro Liò
Associate Fellow
Ebele Mogo
Affiliated Fellow
Yaakov Ophir
Affiliated Fellow
Lorenzo Pacchiardi
Affiliated Fellow
Jonathan Prunty
Affiliated Fellow
Patrick Quinn
Affiliated Fellow
Lucia A. Reisch
Associate Fellow
Katie Seaborn
Associate Fellow
Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii
Affiliated Fellow
Marko Tešić
Affiliated Fellow
Irene Testini
Affiliated Fellow
Ivan Vulić
Associate Fellow
Support CHIA
CHIA seeks partnership with companies and donors that share our mission to advance AI for the benefit of humanity. Support from our partners will ensure that the Centre has the resources needed for innovative, interdisciplinary research on next generation, human-inspired AI. For information about our corporate programme or donations, please get in touch: contact@chia.cam.ac.uk