GINA NEFF

Professor of Responsible AI, Queen Mary University London
Executive Director, Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy,
University of Cambridge
Deputy Chief Executive Officer, UKRI Responsible AI UK

Gina Neff is the Professor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University London. She runs the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge. She is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer for UKRI Responsible AI UK and Associate Director of the ESRC Digital Good Network. 

 

Professor Neff serves on the boards of the Social Science Research Council, the Institute for the Future of Work and Reset, Tech. She holds a doctorate in sociology and undergraduate degrees in Economics and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, all from Columbia University. Her books include Venture Labor (MIT Press 2012), Self-Tracking (MIT Press 2016) and Human-Centered Data Science (MIT Press 2022). 

 

Her academic research has won both engineering and social sciences awards. Oxford awarded her a 2019 Teaching Excellence Award for her leadership of doctoral programmes at the Oxford Internet Institute. She led the team that won the 2021 Webby for the best educational website on the Internet for the A to Z of AI, which reached over one million people in 17 different languages as part of Google’s AI skills training.