Management Committee Members
Dr Marie Oldfield (Chair) CStat CSci APAI FIScT
Dr Marie Oldfield, CStat, CSci, FIScT, SFHEA, APAI, is the AI Lead for the Institute of Science and Technology. Dr Oldfield is the CEO of Oldfield Consultancy. Dr Oldfield sits on the following AI national and international standards committees as an IST representative: IEEE P7015, BSI ART/1. Marie is a recognised and published leader in AI and Ethics with a background in Mathematics and Philosophy.
Dr Oldfield serves as a trusted advisor across government, defence, and legal sectors. Dr Oldfield is frequently invited to speak on popular podcasts, panels and at conferences about her experience and research on the development of ethics in AI.
Marie is passionate about giving back to the global community through extensive pro bono work, with a focus on ethical AI, education, poverty, children and mental health.
Dr Alicia Colson FIScT
Alicia joined the IST in April 2021. She's a founder member of the IST’s AI Special Interest Group. She’s an archaeologist and ethnohistorian with a portfolio career. She’s interested in the interplay between digital humanities, pattern matching and machine learning (AI) particularly using images created by indigenous peoples, and texts. She’s an Affiliated Research Fellow at University of Central Lancashire. Prior to this she was a Visiting Research Fellow at Department of Computing, Goldsmiths and a Wiley Digital Archive Research Fellow at the Royal Geographical Society and IBG. Alicia studied for her PhD with Bruce G Trigger, at McGill University, Montréal, Canada while being a Research Visitor at the IAM Laboratory, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Southampton, UK where she was supervised by Dame Professor Wendy Hall. For three years or so years she was a volunteer member of the London Working Group for the Missing Maps Community given her interest in computer vision and imagery. She’s fluent in four languages and has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Canada, the UK, US, and Antigua and citizen science expeditions in Namibia and Iceland. Alicia joined the Darwin200 expedition on the Oosterschelde, from Salvador to Rio de Janeiro. She’s the co-founder of digital hybrid publication, Exploration Revealed, for the Scientific Exploration Society. She is working on several projects, one of which is with George Kenny, Knowledge Keeper from Lac Seul First Nation in northern Ontario.
Murray McMonies CSci APAI FIScT
Serving as a Commissioned Officer in the Submarine Service of the Royal Navy, Murray McMonies is Marine and Nuclear Engineer by profession. Having initially read civil engineering at the University of
Glasgow. Murray holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Nuclear Reactor Technology at Cranfield University and MSc from the University of Portsmouth. Murray has published on the effectiveness of
maintenance strategies on submarines and advanced CBM technologies.
It is from his most recent work that has driven Murray’s interest into the uses of AI and in particular the implementation of AI within engineering. Further to the work above, Murray is an expert in risk perception and communication where he analyses the societal perceptions of nuclear related technologies.
Dr Richard Saldanha CStat CSci APAI FIScT MIET
Richard joined the IST in April 2021. He is one of the founder members of the IST’s AI Special Interest Group and is currently involved in running the Groups AI Seminar Series as well as being actively involved in development of the IST’s AI professional accreditation. Richard is a Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London where he has taught Machine Learning in Finance, as part of the Master’s Degree Programme in the School of Economics and Finance, since 2018. He is also involved in the AI for Control Problems Project at The Alan Turing Institute, where he has been an Industrial Collaborator since February 2020. Richard’s earlier career was in quantitative finance (risk, trading and investments) gaining over two decades of experience working mainly for institutions in the City of London. He is still actively engaged in quantitative finance via Oxquant. Richard attended Oriel College, University of Oxford, and holds a doctorate (DPhil) in graph theory and multivariate analysis..
Murray Webster MA RTechAI MIScT
Murray is a master’s student at the University of Gothenburg, where he has completed an MSc in European Studies and is working towards an MA in Theoretical Philosophy. His MSc dissertation concerned the European Union’s digital policy towards artificial intelligence and blockchain, highlighting critical weaknesses in its approach. He studied previously at the University of Glasgow and graduated with first-class honours in English Literature and Philosophy. Murray’s research interests concern the interactions between planetary-scale computational systems and structures of socio-political governance. As a part of the IST’s AI Group, he runs the research section and is therein leading projects in public AI education and collaboration between the IST and international organisations such as CEN/CENELEC.