Mark Dinverno

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About Mark Dinverno

Mark d'Inverno's research spans AI, Creativity, Music, Ethics and Performance. He is a recognised authority on the relationship between human creative practices and emerging technologies in AI across research and teaching. He is currently enjoying a sabbatical at Politecnico di Milano in Milan where he is exploring how new technologies in AI and related fields can help understand and enhance emotion in music, and Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona where he is researching how we can approach the design of AI so that it's behaviour is not only consistent with agreed human values but that we can evidence that it is. He attended a comprehensive state school in Southampton before studying at Oxford University where he completed a BA in Mathematics and an MSc in Computing. He then completed a PhD in Artificial Intelligence called Agents, Agency and Autonomy at Unversity College London. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London with interdisciplinary research interests at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence with creativity, the arts, humanities and social science and has published over 200 articles. He has led or co-led a range of research projects funded by EPSRC, AHRC and Wellcome in the UK alongside EU and other international funding body funding. In recent years he has been committed to supporting the diversity of research practice in the UK. He was formerly a member of HEFCE's Research and Knowledge Exchange Strategic Advisory Committee and is currently a member of the REF 2021 Interdisciplinary Research Advisory Panel. He was a member of “Future of Research Assessment” Strategic Advisory Group for Research England (Report published, 2019) and is part of the JISC Research Strategy Forum. He is co-founder and advisory board member of the UK's Practice Research Advisory Group (PRAG UK) and is Deputy Convenor for the Creative Arts, Performing Arts & Design Panel of the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2020. In 2015 he was co-chair of the Special Track on AI and Arts at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. He is Chair of the Advisory Board for the EPSRC Programme Grant FAST, has been a member of the EPSRC review college since 2012 and recently chaired the 2019 EPSRC ICT Prioritisation Panel. He was Pro-Warden (PVC) International between 2017 and 2020, responsible for the university's international strategy, and Pro-Warden Research and Enterprise from 2013 to 2017, responsible for the universities research strategy.