CMI Team

Meet the CMI Team members

Director

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Professor James Marshall

Director

james.marshall@sheffield.ac.uk

James Law

Dr James Law

Deputy Director

j.law@sheffield.ac.uk

Theme Leads

Susan Oman

Dr Susan Oman

Human-Centric AI Theme Lead

s.m.oman@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Denis Newman-Griffis

AI-Enabled Research Theme Lead

d.r.newman-griffis@sheffield.ac.uk

Mahnaz Arvaneh

Dr Mahnaz Arvaneh

Cross-Cutting Theme Lead for AI-Powered Spinouts and Entrepreneurship

m.arvaneh@sheffield.ac.uk

Sean Anderson

Dr Sean Anderson

Cross-Cutting Theme Lead for Upskilling in AI and Data Science

s.anderson@sheffield.ac.uk

Morgan Jones

Dr Morgan Jones 

Cross-Cutting Theme Lead for Supporting Digital Education

morgan.jones@sheffield.ac.uk

Academic Fellows

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Dr Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen

Academic Fellow in AI and In/equality

s.m.l.christensen@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Max Champneys

Academic Fellow in AI for Sustainability and Resilience

max.champneys@sheffield.ac.uk 

Core Team

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Professor Haiping Lu

Head of AI Research Engineering, Professor of Machine Learning & Turing Academic Lead

h.lu@sheffield.ac.uk

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Emma Barker

Centre Manager 

e.barker@sheffield.ac.uk

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Kate Jones

Administrative Assistant

kate.jones2@sheffield.ac.uk

AI Strategy Support

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Zhixiang Chen

Lecturer in Machine Learning

AI Research Engineering Team

Shuo Zhou Portriat

Deputy Head of AI Research Engineering & Academic Fellow in Machine Learning

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Assistant Head of AI Research Engineering & Senior AI Research Engineer

 Jiayang Zhang

Deputy Assistant Head of AI Research Engineering & AI Research Engineer

Mohammod Suvon Portrait

AI Research Engineer

Wenrui Fan Portrait

AI Research Engineer

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AI Research Engineer

Haolin Wang Portrait

AI Research Engineer

Lalu Muhammad Riza Rizky

AI Research Engineer

External Advisers

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Prof Ajay Chakravarthy

Visiting Professor

Professor Ajay Chakravarthy is the Director for Digital, Data and Technology at BDUK. He has a Masters and PhD in Computer Science from the University of ºù«Ӱҵ, and is also a Visiting Professor. Ajay is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). He has worked in various Defence and Security related Civil Service roles in the areas of Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management, Academic Collaboration.

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Prof Clive Humby

Visiting Professor of Computer and Information Science

Clive has been applying mathematical methods and computer science to Census, Consumer and other data sets for over 45 years. Today, he advises a wide range of businesses and government on Data Strategy, Privacy and application of data to business processes. He has held visiting professor roles at both Northwestern University, Chicago and Kingston University and is currently Visiting Professor of Data Science at ºù«Ӱҵ University. Clive was awarded Doctor of Engineering (ºù«Ӱҵ) and Doctor of Science (Kingston). 

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cmi-enquiries@sheffield.ac.uk


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