Professor Alan Winfield
| Post Nominals | BSc, PhD, DSc |
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| Biography | Alan Winfield is Professor of Robot Ethics at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK, Visiting Professor at the University of York, and Associate Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for the Future of Intelligence He received his PhD in Digital Communications from the University of Hull in 1984, then co-founded and led APD Communications Ltd until taking-up appointment at UWE, Bristol in 1992. Alan co-founded the Bristol Robotics Laboratory where his current research is focused on the science, engineering, and ethics of intelligent robots. Alan is an advocate for robot ethics; he is a member of the British Standards Institute working group on robot ethics, currently working on a new standard on Sustainable Robotics. He sits on the executive of the IEEE Standards Association Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, and chaired the Working Group which drafted IEEE standard 7001-2021 on Transparency of Autonomous Systems. Alan has published almost 300 works, including Robotics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012), and blogs at alanwinfield.blogspot.com. Alan is passionate about communicating research and ideas in science, engineering, and technology; he led UK-wide public engagement project Walking with Robots, awarded the 2010 Royal Academy of Engineering Rooke medal for public promotion of engineering. From 2009 to 2016 he was director of UWE’s Science Communication Unit. Alan is frequently called upon by the press and media to comment on developments in AI and robotics; he was a guest on the BBC Radio 4 series The Life Scientific and interviewed for BBC News HARDtalk. |
| Research Interests | The Science and Engineering of Cognitive Robotics Ethical Governance, Policy and Standards in Robotics and AI Safe and Sustainable Robotics and AI |