Sarvapali (Gopal) Ramchurn is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at University of Southampton, CEO of the £31M Responsible Ai UK programme and Director of the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) Hub, which sits at the centre of the £33M Trustworthy Autonomous Systems Programme. He is also co-founder and co-CEO of the AI start-up Empati Ltd, which delivers solutions for real-time carbon accounting across grid, generation and consumption. His research focuses on the design of Responsible Artificial Intelligence for socio-technical applications including energy systems and disaster management, applying techniques from Machine Learning, HCI and Game Theory. He has won multiple best paper awards for his research and is a winner of the AXA Research Fund Award (2018) for his work on Responsible Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the CHAI Advisory Board.

Dr Ken Sutherland is a leading engineering figure at the interface between medicine, engineering and the life sciences in Scotland and the UK. His influence in this sector has translated into global medical products that bring benefit to clinicians, patients, researchers, and the medical industry. In his role as President of Canon Medical Europe he has secured over £180 million of inward investment from Japan into Scottish R&D over the last 15 years. His current vision in precision medicine is driving new innovations in artificial intelligence/data through collaborations between companies, universities, and the NHS.  Ken is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Phoebe is Professor in Law and Technology and the founding Director of the Sussex Centre for Law and Technology (SCLT) at Sussex University in the UK. Her research interests revolve around regulation of science and technology, intellectual property (IP), development, and international trade. 

Phoebe is a Co-Investigator on the UKRI Responsible AI (RAI) Automated Empathy project and a British Academy project on online platform regulation.  She recently concluded the UKRI regulating Trustworthy Autonomous System (TAS, @tas_governance) project with a special focus on AI in health. Phoebe is currently working at the ESRC Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP), examining digital trade, data governance and intellectual property in UK trade agreements post-Brexit.

Mark has spent 35 years in roles within the health sector and in February 2022 became Co Chair of the Ministerial Life Sciences Industrial Leadership Group in Scotland, and continues to support decision HTA decision making for non-medicine technologies through membership of the Scottish Health Technology Group plus, in conjunction with the Chief Scientist Office, raises the profile for the Life Sciences Sector.

To be able to support and advise CHAI is something that Mark looks forward to being able to do to bring the benefits, both economic & societal, to the UK but also to ensure that we retain a world leading position in this field.

Xiao is an Associate Professor in AI and Digital Health at the University of Birmingham, where she jointly leads a research and policy group focused on responsible innovation and regulatory science in AI health technologies. She is AI theme lead of the Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation, co-lead for the UK NIHR Incubator for AI and Digital Health, and advisor to the MHRA on AI as Software as a Medical Device.

She has led international efforts for responsible innovation in medical AI, including SPIRIT-AI and CONSORT-AI and STANDING Together (www.datadiversity.org). Xiao also serves as a Deputy Editor at NEJM-AI and was previously an ophthalmology doctor in the UK NHS and a Health Scientist at Apple.

Chris Holmes is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Oxford, with a joint appointment in the Department of Statistics and the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine.

He also recently became Director of AI Research at the Ellison Institute of Technology. Formerly at Imperial College, London, and with industry experience in scientific computing, he served as the Programme Director for Health and Medical Sciences at The Alan Turing Institute until October 2023. Chris holds a Programme Leader's award in Statistical Genomics from the Medical Research Council UK and was named one of the 'Innovators of the year in AI' by WIRED UK in 2016.

Sabina Leonelli is Chair of Philosophy and History of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Munich, where she serves as Research Director of the Ethical Data Initiative, Co-Director of the Public Science Lab, and Principal Investigator of the ERC Project PHIL_OS. She holds an Honorary Professorship at the University of Exeter, where she was previously Director of the Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences.

Her research focuses on critical data studies, modelling, governance, AI-powered analysis in the biological and health sciences, and the global shift towards open science. She aims to make research, particularly AI-driven discovery, more reliable, responsible, and sustainable.

Leonelli is a Fellow of multiple institutions, including the Royal Society of Biology and Academia Europaea. She is President-Elect of the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, an editor for the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy and the Harvard Data Science Review, and a recipient of the Lakatos Award (2018) and Patrick Suppes Prize (2022). Her recent book, Philosophy of Open Science (2023), was published Open Access by Cambridge University Press.

Bertha Ochieng, Professor of Integrated Health and Social Care, De Montfort University. Bertha has extensive experience in health and social care provision as an academic, clinician and researcher working with community groups and health and social care providers.

Her academic and research focus is on improving health and social care through high-quality education and research that provides positive results to under-served communities throughout their life span. Bertha's strengths are developing solutions for addressing socially disadvantaged populations' health and social care needs and building relationships with community groups and practitioners in the health and social care sector. Her work has resulted in collaborations with diverse teams comprising community and voluntary organisations, academics, NHS Trusts and social care teams locally, nationally and internationally.

Her research portfolio includes community empowerment and engagement to enable the voices of under-served and socially disadvantaged populations to be heard in the planning and delivery of services, Engaging health and social care providers to identify frameworks that support the development of integrated models of health and social care including incorporating digital solutions in health and social care, service development and knowledge transfer activities to enable health and social care workforce to deliver high-quality care.

Naomi is a Senior Portfolio Manager in EPSRC’s AI and Robotics team, acting as the main point of contact for CHAI within EPSRC.