Computer Scientist Websites

Benjamin Anderson is a computer scientist interested in machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is currently building an AI startup in San Francisco. Before that, he was a research fellow at Stanford's Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab, where he focused on data-driven policy interventions in partnership with government agencies. He worked with the Internal Revenue Service to explore the benefits of using self-supervised tabular pretraining for audit selection and with Santa Clara County to evaluate the COVID-19 disease surveillance program using molecular phylogenomics. In his free time, he enjoys listening to comedy podcasts, doing yoga, and baking sourdough. He can be found on Twitter or reached by email at benjamin.anderson [at] hey.com.

Prof. Luc Rocher is an Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. They lead the Synthetic Society Lab, a research group that conducts human-centred computing research to understand how data, digital infrastructure, and algorithms affect society. Prior to joining Oxford, Luc received a PhD from the Université catholique de Louvain and worked as a researcher at the Data Science Institute and Computational Privacy Group of Imperial College London, at the ENS de Lyon, and at the MIT Media Lab. Their work has been published in peer-reviewed conferences and journals, and has been covered by newspapers and featured in media outlets. Their research has been referenced by organizations and has led to changes to the UK's Data Protection Bill. Luc was General Chair of HotPETS and Area Chair for ACM FAccT. They lead the Observatory of Anonymity, an interactive website in 89 countries.

Xavi Costafreda-Fu is a student at the University of Oxford studying Mathematics and Computer Science. In his free time, he reads and writes on Substack. He also posts on Twitter. On his website, you can see what he's up to and what he's about in general. He has one and a half years’ worth of monthly playlists available, as well as some art that he likes.