External Advisory Board

Advisory body for helping to shape the programme

External Advisory Board provides independent advice to our team, ensuring it operates smoothly and efficiently and to the benefit of the students and the programme. 

They meet annually with the management team, students and faculty to provide an independent written report to UKRI and the management team on the progress, effectiveness and successes of the programme, as well as make suggestions for enhancement.

Here are the current members of the advisory board.

NameRole
Prof Hinrich Schütze (Chair)Chair of Computational Linguistics, ACL President (2020), Co-director of the Centre for Information and Language Processing at the University of Munich
Prof Maria LiakataQueen Mary University of London; AI Fellow at The Turing Institute
Prof Paola MerloUniversity of Geneva; Past Editor of the Computational Linguistics Journal
Prof Mari OstendorfSystem Design Methodologies, University of Washington
Dr. Seraphina Goldfarb-TarrantHead of AI Safety, Cohere
Lizzie HimsPortfolio Manager, ICT Theme, UKRI/EPSRC