CMI Team
Meet the CMI Team members
Director
Theme Leads
Dr Mahnaz Arvaneh
Cross-Cutting Theme Lead for AI-Powered Spinouts and Entrepreneurship
m.arvaneh@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Sean Anderson
Cross-Cutting Theme Lead for Upskilling in AI and Data Science
s.anderson@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Morgan Jones
Cross-Cutting Theme Lead for Supporting Digital Education
morgan.jones@sheffield.ac.uk
Academic Fellows
Dr Sarah Moth-Lund Christensen
Academic Fellow in AI and In/equality
s.m.l.christensen@sheffield.ac.uk
Dr Max Champneys
Academic Fellow in AI for Sustainability and Resilience
max.champneys@sheffield.ac.uk
Core Team
Professor Haiping Lu
Head of AI Research Engineering, Professor of Machine Learning & Turing Academic Lead
h.lu@sheffield.ac.uk
AI Strategy Support
AI Research Engineering Team
Deputy Head of AI Research Engineering & Academic Fellow in Machine Learning
Assistant Head of AI Research Engineering & Senior AI Research Engineer
Deputy Assistant Head of AI Research Engineering & AI Research Engineer
AI Research Engineer
AI Research Engineer
AI Research Engineer
AI Research Engineer
AI Research Engineer
External Advisers
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 91̽»¨, 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.
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 91̽»¨ University. Clive was awarded Doctor of Engineering (91̽»¨) and Doctor of Science (Kingston).
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