CMI Team

Professor James Marshall

Director

james.marshall@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr James Law

Deputy Director

j.law@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Susan Oman

Human-Centric AI Theme Lead

s.m.oman@sheffield.ac.uk

Dr Denis Newman-Griffis

AI-Enabled Research Theme Lead

d.r.newman-griffis@sheffield.ac.uk

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

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 

Professor Haiping Lu

Head of AI Research Engineering, Professor of Machine Learning & Turing Academic Lead

h.lu@sheffield.ac.uk

Emma Barker

Centre Manager 

e.barker@sheffield.ac.uk

Kate Jones

Administrative Assistant

kate.jones2@sheffield.ac.uk

Zhixiang Chen

Lecturer in Machine Learning

Shuo Zhou

Deputy Head of AI Research Engineering & Academic Fellow in Machine Learning

Xianyuan Liu

Assistant Head of AI Research Engineering & Senior AI Research Engineer

Jiayang Zhang

Deputy Assistant Head of AI Research Engineering & AI Research Engineer

Mohammod Suvon

AI Research Engineer

Wenrui Fan

AI Research Engineer

Alan Thomas

AI Research Engineer

Haolin Wang

AI Research Engineer

Lalu Muhammad Riza Rizky

AI Research Engineer

Prof Ajay Chakravarthy

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 Sheffield, 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.

Prof Clive Humby

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 Sheffield University. Clive was awarded Doctor of Engineering (Sheffield) and Doctor of Science (Kingston).