Summer School 2022

is a master's student at the Chair for Statistics and Data Science in Social Sciences and the Humanities at LMU Munich. Her research interests include the study of the socio-cultural impact of AI. She is currently working on the topic of fairness in algorithmic decision making in the context of allocating support programs to unemployed individuals.

is a professor at Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU), researcher and co-director of the Center for Technology and Society (CETyS) at the University of San Andrés in Buenos Aires and Associate Fellow at the Center for Global Cooperation Research (GCR21, Universität Duisburg-Essen). She is the founder and academic director of Diploma in Internet Governance (DiGI), a member of the Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GIGANET) and was part of the AI Ethics Recommendations Ad Hoc Expert Working Group at UNESCO.

is a computational social scientist at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research at the University of Mannheim. His current work investigates biases and fairness issues in statistical profiling and AI systems as well as online behavior in a polarized world.

is chair for AI Systems Engineering at the University of Bamberg as well as professor at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin. He maintains a close research collaboration with the University of Luxembourg and advises AI startup companies in Germany and abroad.

is Head of Strategic AI (VP) at DEKRA DIGITAL. Tarek completed his PhD in 2014 at the Institute for Cognitive Science in Osnabrück on topics at the interface between cognition and AI such as artificial cognitive systems and computational creativity. He is chairman of the German DIN-DKE standardization committee for Artificial Intelligence (NA 043-01-42 GA) and a member of the AI expert advisory board of Microsoft Germany.

 

(she/her) is a France-based designer, researcher, and artist. Her work explores biases that show the link between technologies and systems of domination, with a specific focus on racial bias in the realization of virtual agents. She is part of the Dreaming Beyond AI collective. As an artist, she is interested in creating alternative and collaborative narratives using virtual tools. By focusing on understanding these tools and democratizing their use in the form of workshops, she hopes that the communities most marginalized by these tools would have the opportunity to shape them and create other meanings.
 

is a Digital Law expert working on digital policy and Justice innovation within the African Continent. She is the CEO and founder of the LawyersHub in Kenya and consults on Digital Identity, Digital Trade Policy and Privacy/Security. She is a Tech Women Fellow 2020, a member of the Real Facebook Oversight Bwithin the African Continentoard, and was globally awarded in 2020 as a Good ID community champion on Privacy. As a thought leader in Tech regulation, she has appeared on various international and local media, and aptly spoken at international fora like the Council of Europe on tech and regulation.

is a product manager for artificial intelligence, innovations and business development at Veridos GmbH, a provider of turnkey identity solutions for governments (e.g. including enrolment, personalization and issuance, mobile ID solutions, and border control solutions). She holds a master’s degree in Conflict, Security and Development from the University of Sussex and has worked for the Munich Security Conference Foundation, the Swiss Academy for Development and as a journalist in the past.

is a creative strategist and AI ethicist. Her work revolves around ethics, impact, and governance of AI systems and it is grounded in intersectional feminism. Buse is the co-founder of the AI research, advocacy and art platform Dreaming Beyond AI. Buse's work aims to demystify the intersectional impact of AI technologies through research, policy advocacy and art for the general public and various organisations. 

 

earned a PhD in theoretical physics in 2012. Thereafter he worked as software developer in several companies with a focus on computational linguistic and information retrieval. He joined BMW as NLP developer in 2019, and has been recently nominated referent for AI Ethics in his department.
 

is lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, and Executive Director of the Research Center in Applied Ethics (CCEA). Mihaela has published on topics related to virtue ethics, business ethics, and AI ethics, focusing her research on the normative interplay between the concepts of moral responsibility and moral agency in relation to individuals, organizations, and AI. 

is the founder of GainForest and a Ph.D. candidate at ETH Zurich on AI and Data Systems for the Sustainable Development Goals. GainForest is a non-profit grantee of Microsoft’s AI for Earth program and leverages decentralized technology to prevent deforestation. At ETH Zurich, he founded the Climate + AI initiative at DS3Lab and maintains Github's most starred collection on ethical use of AI. Previously, he was an engineer in Silicon Valley and a research fellow at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR), Stanford University and at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford. His research focuses on digital constitutionalism, platform governance and digital policy. He is one of the co-editor of "The Digital Constitutionalist" (Digi-Con) and the author of "Digital Constitutionalism in Europe. Reframing Rights and Powers in the Algorithmic Society" (CUP 2022).

is an advisor for AI and data-driven innovation at scale. Her goal is the innovations that emerge when artificial and "natural" intelligence work together, evolve as a team, and create value together. As Senior Managing Consultant at the global Center of Excellence for AI & Analytics at IBM, she advises on scaling innovation projects around artificial intelligence. Within her global network, Sarah Engel addresses ethical issues for establishing trustworthy AI.

is a senior researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. Her research focuses on the intersection between technology and human rights. She is a co-founder of Internet&Society, an interdisciplinary research network of Copenhagen University and has been an expert member of the Council of Europe’s Committee on Rights of Internet Users. 
 

is a scientific advisor in the research department at the Bavarian Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt). His research focus is on behavioral economics and ethics. Previously, he worked at the Department of Business Ethics at the Technical University of Munich, where he was part of the junior research group "Ethics of Digitalization".

is an author and scholar, whose main focus lies on the ethics of big data and artificial intelligence. She is a co-founder and research director of the Danish non-profit think-tank DataEthics and senior key expert on AI ethics at the International Outreach for a Human-Centric Approach to Artificial Intelligence initiative of the European Commission. 

is a master’s student at the Chair for Statistics and Data Science in Social Sciences and the Humanities at LMU Munich. His research focus lies on the application of statistical and machine learning methods for social research and public decision making. He is investigating both fairness and uncertainty in public profiling systems, with a particular focus on the profiling of the unemployed.

is a philosopher and an applied mathematician. She is an assistant professor at the University of Edinburgh, where she is a core faculty member at the Centre for Technomoral Futures. Her main research interests concern the ethics and philosophy of AI and computing, values in sciences and decision making, and modeling of morality. In 2021 she was listed as one of the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” by Women in AI Ethics™ (WAIE).  

is an incoming Junior Professor for Social Data Science and Statistical Learning at LMU Munich and Project Director at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. His research focuses on the reliable use of machine learning methods in social science and algorithmic fairness.

has gained a PhD at the Swinburne University of Technology and is Team Lead for Trustworthy AI at appliedAI at the Technical University of Munich/ UnternehmerTUM.

is a researcher interested in innovation and artificial intelligence, who currently works in BMW’s IT department. Here, she is responsible for the company’s enterprise conversational AI platform and developing different systems intended to build bot ecosystems, thereby allowing BMW employees and related partners a single interface to automate business processes throughout the entire BMW value chain.

is Team Lead for MLOps Processes at appliedAI leading and consulting AI Projects, defining and evaluating use cases, developing AI solutions from experimentation to production, understanding technical challenges and best practices from the customers along the ML life cycle and their AI journey.
He has experience in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data and Software engineering at appliedAI, the Max Planck Society, and BMW. His background is in Electrical and Communications Engineering.

is co-lead of the Audit Specification Group in etami Project (Ethical and Trustworthy Artificial and Machine Intelligence), member of the CLAIRE Special Interest Group on Ethics and member of the DFKI Ethics-Board. He has a master’s degree in applied ethics. 

is principal advisor at the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers of the European Commission. His vast legal background includes longstanding practical experience in litigation before European Courts, teaching expertise as a visiting professor at the College of Europe, as well as numerous publications on democracy, technology and the law, AI law and ethics. 
 

is the team-assistance to the ethics team at DFKI. She has a master’s degree in ancient history and latin philology.

is a freelance policy analyst at the think tank iRights.Lab, whose work focusses on digital ethics, algorithmic discrimination and the operationalization of Trustworthy AI. He is also a member of the Norwegian Council on Digital Ethics.

is head of the mFUND accompanying research "MoveMobility" of the think tank iRights.Lab, which also includes the platform Emmett. She can also be heard on the "Emmett in Transit" podcast.

is professor of Applied Computer Science with a focus on cognitive systems at the University of Bamberg. She is a member of the board of directors of the Bavarian Institute of Digital Transformation (bidt), part of the steering committee of the IBM fortiss Center for AI and head of the Fraunhofer IIS project group “Comprehensible AI”, as well as a member of the Bavarian AI Council. 
 

chairs the Institute for Information Systems and Society at Vienna University of Economics and Business. Her interdisciplinary research is situated at the intersection of computer science, philosophy, psychology and economics with a strong focus on digital ethics, on which she has published several books including “Digital Ethics – A Value System for the 21st Century” (2019).

is a PhD researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) of the University of Amsterdam, whose works focuses on the intersections of data, technology, algorithmic management, labour and social justice in the gig economy. She is a co-founder and secretary of The Racism and Technology Center, which is dedicated to function as a facilitator between anti-racism organisations and organisations that focus on digital rights, by building a knowledge database, shaping public opinion and regularly giving introductory presentations on the intersection between racism and technology.

is an independent speaker, writer, teacher and advisor focusing on data democracy, data ethics, data understanding and digital self-defense. She is a co-founder of the Danish non-profit think-tank DataEthics and regularly writes columns on digital media and technology. 
 

is a researcher in the ethics team at DFKI. She is doing her PhD in philosophy at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin focusing on the question of intentionality of artificial intelligence. She is a member of etami (Ethical and Trustworthy Artificial and Machine Intelligence) and the DIN Standardization Roadmap 2.0. 

is an ethicist and scientific advisor in the research department of the Bavarian Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt). She works on the topics of application-oriented rationality theory, ethical software design, and the normative conception of platforms for digital citizen participation.

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