Professor Gina Neff

Gina Neff is Professor of Responsible AI at Queen Mary University of London. She runs the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy at the University of Cambridge. She is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer for UKRI Responsible AI UK (RAi UK) and Associate Director of the ESRC Digital Good Network.

Professor Neff serves on the boards of the Social Science Research Council, Institute for the Future of Work, and Reset.tech. She holds both a Ph.D. in Sociology and a B.A. in Economics and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures from Columbia University. Her books include Venture Labor (MIT Press 2012), Self-Tracking (MIT Press 2016) and Human-Centered Data Science (MIT Press 2022).

Her academic research has won both engineering and social sciences awards. Oxford awarded her a 2019 Social Science Division Teaching Excellence Award for her leadership of doctoral programmes at the Oxford Internet Institute. She led the team that won the 2021 Webby for the best educational website on the Internet for the A to Z of AI, which reached over 1 million people in 17 different languages as part of Google’s AI skills training.