Gradient Institute's team members have deep expertise in machine learning research and engineering, as well as commercial technology consulting and technology deployment. We also have something unique: experience creating and developing ethically aware machine learning systems. We are motivated to bring about a world in which ethics are an integral part of data science and machine learning systems, and to ensure this new technology works to make the world fairer and more sustainable.
Bill Simpson-Young
Chief Executive
Tiberio Caetano
Chief Scientist
Alistair Reid
Head of Research Engineering
Yaya Lu
AI Education Services Lead
Sarah Klain
Business Operations Manager
Ali Akbari
Director of AI Practice
Alberto Chierici
Principal AI Specialist
Liam Carroll
Researcher
Simon O'Callaghan
Head of Technical AI Governance
Chris Dolman
Data and AI Risk and Ethics Principal | Telstra
Dimitri Semenovich
Analytics Director | IAG
Prof Kimberlee Weatherall
School of Law | University of Sydney
Prof Seth Lazar
School of Philosophy | Australian National University
Prof Will Bateman
School of Law | Australian National University
Prof Kalervo Gulson
Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences | University of Sydney
Rachel Howard
Senior Advisor | AMB Holdings
Dr Anna Zhu
Senior Lecturer | School of Economics, Finance and Marketing | RMIT University
Linda Przhedetsky
Assistant Professor, Human Technology Institute, UTS
Lachlan McCalman
Co-founder and former CTO of Gradient Institute
Grace Abuhamad
Tech Policy Strategist
Julie Batch
Non-executive Board Member
Tony Henshaw
Non-executive Board Member
Elizabeth Tydd
Australian Information Commissioner and Head of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC)
Distinguished Emeritus Prof Huw Price
Distinguished Professor Emeritus | University of Bonn || Emeritus Fellow | Trinity College Cambridge
Prof Lyria Bennett-Moses
Head of School, Law, Society and Criminology, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Dr Simon Longstaff
Executive Director | The Ethics Centre
Prof Toby Walsh
Chief Scientist, UNSW AI Institute, Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence - School of Computer Science & Engineering, UNSW Sydney
David Hua
Software Engineering and Law | University of Sydney
Gemma Campbell
Advanced Computing and Mathematical Sciences | Australian National University
Elija Perrier
Research Fellow