About

Adrian Weller is a Director of Research in Machine Learning (ML) at the University of Cambridge. 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 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.

Research

Adrian’s research focuses on:

• Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) and their applications
• Ensuring beneficial outcomes for society, including explainability, fairness, robustness, scalability, privacy, safety, and ethics
• Applications in finance