Teachers

We are extremely happy and proud that the following renowned scholars have accepted to teach at the summerschool:

Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University, Ireland)
Didem Ozkul (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
Michael Veale (UCL, London, UK)
Bart Preneel (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Ana-Maria Cretu (Imperial College, London, UK)
Marc Langheinrich (Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland)
James Stewart (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Gianclaudio Malgieri (Leiden University)
Jiahong Chen (University of Sheffield)

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Teacher Biographies

Aphra Kerr (Maynooth University)

Dr. Aphra Kerr is a Professor in Sociology at Maynooth University, Ireland. She is a funded PI and science lead within the Transparent Digital Governance strand at the Science Foundation Ireland funded ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, a multi-institutional and multidisciplinary national research centre (2021-2027). She is also PI on two projects collaborating with Dublin City Council and Smart Dublin (2022-2024) and on the YouGamSI project (2022-2024) which examines gambling marketing. Her current research focuses on the governance and social impacts of AI across media, games and everyday smart technologies. Her books include 'Global Games: Production, Circulation and Policy in the Networked Age', Routledge, 2017, and she was associate editor of 'The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society', Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. In 2021 she was invited into the Academy of Europe and in 2016 she received a Distinguished Scholar award from the international Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). She was awarded a PhD in Communication Studies (DCU, 2000). For more see Maynooth University work website, LinkedIn or twitter @aphrak.

Marc Langheinrich (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano)

Marc Langheinrich is Full Professor, Dean, and Director of two MSc programs (MSc in Financial Technology and Computing; MSc in Management and Informatics) in the Faculty of Informatics at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland. Prior to joining USI in 2008, Marc was a senior researcher and lecturer in the Department of Computer Science of the ETH Zürich. He also worked for two years as a researcher at NEC Research, Tokyo, Japan, and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. His research focuses on privacy in mobile and pervasive computing systems, in particular with a view towards social compatibility. Marc has been a General Chair or Program Chair of most major conferences in the field—including Ubicomp, PerCom, Pervasive, and the IoT conference. From 2018-2022 he served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Pervasive Magazine. Marc holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He can be reached at marc.langheinrich@usi.ch. For more information see here

Didem Özkul (Bilkent University)

Didem Özkul is assistant professor of communication at Bilkent University, Turkey, and visiting associate professor of digital media and society at University College London, UK. Her research focuses on emerging networked digital technologies and their societal implications, in particular, mobile communication and media, location data and mobile sensors, and user agency and AI. She has written extensively about mobile communication and location data practices based on applied ethnographic fieldwork and creative method workshops with end-users of networked digital communication technologies. Currently, she is writing a research monograph, The Politics of Location Tracking and Profiling, which presents a critical analysis of location data, machine learning, and politics of mobilities (under contract with Routledge), and editing a special issue on sensor-mediated communication, power, and mobilities for the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (Oxford University Press). Her work has appeared in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media & Society, Mobile Media & Communication, Convergence: International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, and First Monday.

Gianclaudio Malgieri (Leiden University)

Gianclaudio Malgieri is an Associate Professor of Law & Technology at Leiden University (the Netherlands), where he conducts research at the eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies. He serves as the Co-Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub; as an Associate Editor of Computer Law and Security Review, and as an External Ethics Expert of the European Commission. He coordinates “VULNERA“, the International Observatory of Vulnerable People in Data Protection. He teaches Data Protection, Privacy, AI regulation and Fundamental Rights in the digital age. He conducts research on human vulnerability in the digital world, data protection rights, AI regulation, fairness, accountability and transparency of AI.

Jiahong Chen (University of Sheffield)

Dr Jiahong Chen is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield. His primary research interest lies in the intersection between law and technology, in particular data protection law, cybersecurity law, law and AI, data ethics and internet regulation. His current work focuses on the privacy and social implications of using personal data in the contexts of smart homes. His work has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and cited by policymakers, and he has been invited to provide oral evidence as expert witness to a UK parliamentary inquiry. Prior to his current post, he worked at the University of Nottingham as a Research Fellow in IT Law (2018-2021) and at the University of Edinburgh as a PhD researcher (2014-2018).

Michael Veale (University College London)

Dr Michael Veale is Associate Professor in digital rights and regulation at University College London's Faculty of Laws. His research focusses on how to understand and address challenges of power and justice that digital technologies and their users create and exacerbate, in areas such as privacy-enhancing technologies and machine learning. This work is regularly cited by legislators, regulators and governments, and Dr Veale has consulted for a range of policy organisations includingthe Royal Society and British Academy, the Law Society of England and Wales, the European Commission, the Commonwealth Secretariat. Dr Veale holds a PhD from UCL, a MSc from Maastricht University and a BSc from LSE. He tweets at @mikarv.

Ana-Maria Cretu (Imperial College London)

Ana-Maria Cretu is a final year PhD candidate in the Computational Privacy Group at Imperial College London, where she is advised by Dr. Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye. Her research interests lie at the intersection between machine learning, privacy, and security. She studies privacy and security vulnerabilities in data processing systems (pseudonymization, machine learning models, query-based systems, and client-side scanning) through the lens of automated attacks. Her work uses machine learning and evolutionary algorithms to develop novel attacks against such systems. Through a rigorous study of privacy vulnerabilities, her research informs the design of principled countermeasures allowing to prevent them and, ultimately, to use data safely. She holds the Diplome d’Ingénieur de l’Ecole Polytechnique (equivalent to a Bachelors and Master’s degree) from Ecole Polytechnique, France and an MSc in Computer Science from EPFL, Switzerland. She interned at Microsoft Research (2022), Twitter (2020) and Google (2016 and 2017) and was a visiting researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford (2018), working on deep learning for natural language processing.

James Stewart (University of Edinburgh)

James Stewart is a Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has specialised in the develop, governance, and consumption of ICTs from the earliest days of the Web, exploring how speculative innovation raises challenges as it meets the practices and structures of everyday life at home and in the city. He has conducted research in areas as diverse as cybercafes, Chinese telecoms policy, speculative design , Mobility as a Service, Living Labs, video games for inclusion and ICT for elder care. Recent work has been on Internet of things surveillance in University, which will be the focus of his contribution at this workshop. He is currently working on online targeted advertising by the public sector using the surveillance advertising infrastructures of business, and on the social and legal challenges of “generative” or Prompt AI. He was a Research Scientist at the JRC 2010-2013, and was recently on the Scottish Digital Ethics Expert Panel. He has run a long-standing research seminar series “Controversies in the Data Society’, and is his main occupation is teaching social and policy issues of the internet and the data society, and developing interactive and place-based teaching and learning approaches. https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/james-stewart

Bart Preneel (KU Leuven)

Prof. Bart Preneel is a full professor at the KU Leuven, where he heads the COSIC research group. He was visiting professor at five universities in Europe. His main research interests are cryptography, cybersecurity and privacy. He has been invited speaker at more than 150 conferences in 50 countries. He received the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics (2014) and is a fellow of the IACR. He also received the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award (2017) and the Kristian Beckman award from IFIP TC11 (2016). He has served as president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research). Bart Preneel frequently consults for industry and government about cybersecurity and privacy technologies and serves on the expert center of the Belgian Privacy Authority. He was technical lead for the contact tracing app Coronalert. He is co-founder and Board Member of the start-up nextAuth, Board Member of the scale-up Approach Belgium and Advisory Board Member for Tioga Capital Partners, Neptune and Nym Technologies. He has been actively involved in cybersecurity and privacy policy debates and is serving on the Advisory Group of ENISA. He conducts the jazz orchestra of the University of Leuven.