Dr Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Atoosa Kasirzadeh

Position

Group Leader (Verifiable, Explainable RAS Interfaces)

Partner Institution

Bio

Atoosa is a tenure-track assistant professor (Chancellor’s Fellow) in the philosophy department and the Director of Research at the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to this, she was a visiting research scientist at Google DeepMind in London and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian National University. She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy (2021, specialized in philosophy of science and technology) from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in applied mathematics (2015, specialized in large-scale algorithmic decision-making) from the Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal. 

Research interests

Atoosa's research is focused on AI safety and ethics, including topics such as algorithmic transparency and accountability, algorithmic fairness and justice justice, ethical and social implications of generative AI models and recommender systems.