chris russell

turing institute, surrey & oxford

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The Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS) is a community for entrepreneurs and researchers who accelerate the science and applications of AI technology. We’ve been running for 6 years now and have hosted over fifty entrepreneurs and academics who have built billion-dollar companies and published foundational papers that drive the AI field forward. 

In the lead up to our 6th annual event that will be broadcast live online on the 26th June 2020, we’re running a series of speaker profiles highlighting what you can expect to learn on the day!

The ethics of algorithm design, meet Chris Russell

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Chris Russell is a Group Leader in Safe and Ethical AI at the Alan Turing Institute, and a Reader in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey. His recent work on explainability (with Sandra Wachter and Brent Mittelstadt of the OII) is cited in the guidelines to the GDPR and forms part of the TensorFlow “What-if tool”. He was one of the first researchers to propose the use of causal models in reasoning about fairness (namely Counterfactual Fairness), and continues to work extensively on computer vision, where he has won best paper award in two of the largest conferences BMVC and ECCV.

We’re looking forward to hosting a panel discussion between Chris, Sandra, and Brent at RAAIS 2020. 

To find out more about Chris’ work, check out his webpage and follow him on Twitter.

We’re excited to be hosting Chris at RAAIS 2020, welcome!