Reuters Institute Event: India's Social Media Elections

Convener: Meera Selva

Speaker: Dr Vidya Narayanan

Dr Vidya Narayanan works at the Oxford Internet Institute's Computational Propaganda Project which looks at the use of algorithms, automation and computational propaganda in public life. She has several years of experience working as a researcher in Artificial Intelligence, with groups at both universities and in commercial environments. Her research interests lie in the interface between technology, ethics and policy, and she is primarily engaged in developing systems that use technology for the greater good of society. She completed her Phd in Computer Science at the University of Southampton, building adaptive techniques for automated negotiations.