Assistant Professor Susan Leavy
Susan Leavy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication at UCD and a funded investigator with Insight. Her research interests concern artificial intelligence, text analysis, and AI Ethics. She is currently working on developing frameworks and techniques for ethical recommendation algorithms and also mitigation of bias in AI. She earned a PhD in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, an MPhil in Gender and Women’s studies, an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, and a BA in Philosophy and English Literature. Susan also worked internationally managing the development of large-scale trading platforms in the financial technology sector. Susan also has a strong interest in the development of regulation for AI and was recently nominated as Ireland’s representative on the Global Partnership for AI (GPAI).