Scholar
Adrian Weller
Google Scholar ID: Ek4hM10AAAAJ
Director of Research, Machine Learning, University of Cambridge
Citations & Impact
Citations
14,965
H-index
54
i10-index
131
Publications
20
Co-authors
182
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2022 for services to digital innovation
- Holder of a Turing AI Fellowship for Trustworthy Machine Learning
- Program Chair of ICML 2024
- Supervised PhD students including Yanzhi Chen (recipient of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship)
- Organized numerous workshops at ICML, NeurIPS, ICAIF, and The Alan Turing Institute on topics like responsible AI, generative AI, explainable AI, privacy, and fairness
Research Experience
- Former Programme Director for AI at The Alan Turing Institute
- Former advisory board member of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI)
- Former member of UNESCO’s ad hoc expert group on AI ethics
- Held senior roles in finance; currently an angel investor and advisor
- Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on AI in Weapon Systems
- Board member of the International Association for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI)
- Member of the CSIS AI Council focusing on corporate responsibility, international collaboration, and AI governance
Background
- Director of Research in Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge
- Broad research interests across ML/AI, applications, and ensuring beneficial societal outcomes
- Focus areas include explainability, fairness, robustness, scalability, privacy, safety, ethics, and finance
- Head of Safe and Ethical AI at The Alan Turing Institute
- Director of Research and Programme Director for Trust and Society at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI)
- Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
- Member of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Future of AI
- Co-director of the ELLIS programme on Human-centric Machine Learning
