Professor Michael Rovatsos

Professor Michael Rovatsos

Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Deputy Vice Principal of Research at the University of Edinburgh

Michael Rovatsos is Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Deputy Vice Principal of Research at the University of Edinburgh, where he also heads up the Bayes Centre, the University’s data science and AI innovation hub.

He has over 20 years of experience in AI research, where the focus of his work has been on multiagent systems, i.e. intelligent systems where artificial and/or human agents collaborate or compete with each other. In recent years, he has primarily been working on ethical aspects of AI, developing methods for designing fair and diversity-aware AI algorithms that respect the values of human users. Michael has published around 100 scientific articles on various topics in AI, and has been involved in research projects that have received over £17 million of external funding.

He received his PhD from the Technical University of Munich in 2004, and has been living in Scotland ever since, after spending most of his early years in Germany away from his native Greece.