About

Adrian Weller is a Director of Research in Machine Learning (ML) at the University of Cambridge. He has broad interests across machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), their applications, and helping to ensure beneficial outcomes for society, including: explainability, fairness, robustness, scalability, privacy, safety, ethics and finance. He holds a Turing AI Fellowship for Trustworthy Machine Learning.

Adrian is head of Safe and Ethical AI at The Alan Turing Institute (UK national institute for data science and AI). He is a Director of Research and Programme Director for Trust and Society at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI); an advisor to the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER); and a fellow at Sidney Sussex College.

Adrian serves on the boards of several organizations. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Future of AI, and is co-director of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) programme on Human-centric Machine Learning. Adrian previously served as Programme Director for AI at the Turing Institute, on the advisory board of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) and in the UNESCO ad hoc expert group on the ethics of AI. Earlier, Adrian held senior positions in finance. He continues to be an angel investor and advisor. In 2022, Adrian received an MBE for services to digital innovation in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.