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Janina Schupp is the SOUTHWORKS Career Development Fellow in Digital Humanities at Jesus College, University of Oxford and an Affiliated Lecturer in Architecture and Moving Images at the University of Cambridge. She is also a documentary film producer and held fellowships at the Library of Congress, Camargo Foundation and Nanjing University.

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William Latham is well known for his pioneering Organic Computer Art created in the late eighties and early nineties whilst a Research Fellow at IBM in Winchester. His book “Evolutionary Art and Computers” on interactive evolutionary art covering the period at IBM is cited as a leading publication in this domain.

From 1993 for thirteen years, initially he worked in Rave Music video production, album cover design and visual stage design and then moved into computer games development leading two development studios games published by Universal Studios, Virgin Interactive and Konami.

In 2007 he became a Professor in Computing at Goldsmiths University of London. From 2016 his Mutator VR Art Experience developed with long term collaborator Stephen Todd, with Lance Putnam and Peter Todd has been exhibited to much acclaim at museums and galleries in Linz, Shanghai, Brussels, Kyoto, Venice, Dusseldorf, London and in St. Petersburg (linked to The Hermitage Museum) and Paris at the Centre Georges Pompidou.

William is an Honorary Research Fellow at The Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL and has a BA from Oxford University and an MA from The Royal College of Art.

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Frederic works on creativity and AI systems, including robots which can perform with artistic skills similar to expert humans.

He also conducts work with specialists in the biosciences, helping to develop interactive computer environments (occasionally in the form of serious games) to facilitate the study of complex biomolecular problems (folding, docking).

Frederic has a long term interest in shape understanding where he combines knowledge from perception, vision science, AI, the visual arts. Frederic joined Goldsmiths in 2004, when he launched an MSc in Arts Computing.

Outside academia, Frederic leads the consulting activity London Geometry in partnership with Prof. William Latham.

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Stephen Taylor is the Head of Integrative Computational Biology at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics. His team is dedicated to developing cutting-edge computational methods that enhance the integration, visualisation, and analysis of large multi-dimensional biological datasets. Steve's research uses advanced computational integration, visualisation and machine learning techniques applied to spatial biology, imaging, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and epigenetics, enabling insights into disease contexts and progressions. Key projects include the Multi-Dimensional Viewer (MDV) for analysing large multi-omic data sets, LanceOtron for analysing epigenetic signals, and applications of XR technologies in Biomedicine. His work paves the way for exploring cellular pathologies, discovering new biomarkers, and redefining disease taxonomies.

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Larisa joined Goldsmiths in November 2017 as director of the online Masters in Data Science programme.

Larisa is an internationally recognized expert in AI, particularly in discovery science, reasoning, knowledge representation and semantic technologies. She leads in Goldsmiths the EPSRC-funded project ACTION on cancer aiming to develop an AI system to assist in recommending personalized cancer treatments.

Larisa is also working on the Robot Scientists project, which investigates what processes of scientific discovery can be automated and how robotic and human scientists can work together.

The Robot Scientist Adam was the first system that made an autonomous scientific discovery.

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