Vivek Nallur Dr. Vivek Nallur, Assistant Professor in Computer Science in the School of Computing, UCD, works on Machine Ethics and his research interests and expertise lie in computational ethics, how to implement and verify ethics in multiple autonomous machines. Questions such as what kinds of ethics would autonomous machines find consistent, how to ensure individually ethical machines don’t combine to produce un-ethical behaviour, are interesting to pose, and answer computationally. This is, by nature, an inter-disciplinary thread and Dr. Nallur is interested in collaborating with experts in the field of philosophy/law/politics etc. He is involved in the Organizing Committee for AAAI 2021 Spring Symposium Series on Implementing AI Ethics [22-24 March 2021]. He is a voting member, and serves on the IEEE P7008 Standards committee for Ethically Driven Nudging for Robotic, Intelligent and Autonomous Systems.
Laura Grehan Laura Grehan is Education and Public Engagement Manager at ADAPT. She leads the development and delivery of ADAPT’s Education and Public Engagement (EPE) programme. This ambitious programme has been reviewed independently as delivering significant human capacity and societal impact. Under Laura’s leadership, ADAPT has won more than €520K in funding for education and public engagement projects since 2017. Some of these projects have won international awards recognising their high quality. Laura has 18 years of experience in delivering impactful communications and public engagement campaigns for diverse audiences. She holds a BA in International Marketing and Languages and a MSc in Electronic Commerce from Dublin City University. Laura has previously held marketing and communications, business development, and education outreach roles at DCU School of Computing, DCU Business School, and the Irish Computer Society. She is a member of the Board of the International Linguistics Olympiad.
