Peter Lewis
- Canada Research Chair in Trustworthy AI and Associate Professor, Ontario Tech University, Canada.
Dr. Peter Lewis holds a Canada Research Chair in Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI), at Ontario Tech University, Canada, where he is an Associate Professor and Director of the Trustworthy AI Lab. Peter’s research advances both foundational and applied aspects of AI and draws on extensive experience applying AI commercially and in the non-profit sector. He is interested in where AI meets society, and how to help that relationship work well. His current research is concerned with challenges of trust, bias, and accessibility in AI, as well as how to create more socially intelligent AI systems, such that they work well as part of society, explicitly taking into account human factors such as norms, values, social action, and trust.
He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society, IEEE Technology & Society Magazine (TSM) and ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS), a board member of the International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) with responsibility for Social Impact, and Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Self-organizing Systems (ACSOS). He has published over 100 papers in academic journals and conference proceedings, as well as the foundational book Self-aware Computing Systems: An Engineering Approach, in 2016. He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham, UK.
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