About

Dr Ramit Debnath is the Executive Director of the Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA) and an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is an elected member of the UK Government’s DWP Methods Advisor Group (MAG). Ramit is the Founding Director of the Collective Intelligence & Design group and the climaTRACES lab, working at the intersection of AI, energy, environment and computational social sciences. He is also the Assistant Director of the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) at the Cambridge Judge Business School. He is a Fellow and Director of Studies at Churchill College. He has visiting academic roles at Caltech, co-leading the Climate and Social Intelligence Lab, and at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, co-leading the Stanford-Cambridge Inclusive Ordering Initiative. Ramit has a background in electrical engineering and computational social sciences with an MPhil and PhD from Cambridge as a Gates Scholar.

Research

Ramit’s research focusses on:

• Human-in-the-loop AI for sustainability
• Computational social sciences for the environment
• Complex system design and decision-making
• Social tipping points and climate action
• Energy, environment, and climate justice