Huma Shah

Huma joined Coventry University in June 2014 from Reading University where she gained her PhD in 'Deception-detection and machine intelligence in Practical Turing tests'. She worked on the EU FP7 funded 'RoboLaw' project (http://www.robolaw.eu/). 

Huma is co-author of 'Turing's Imitation Game: Conversations with the Unknown', published by Cambridge University Press in September 2016: http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2016/10/turings-imitation-game-a-qa-with-co-author-huma-shah/

The impact of Huma’s research is illustrated through her profile on Academia.edu : she is within the top 5% with over 19,400 research article views/reads/downloads.

She is a Member of the European Platform for Women Scientists. She organised two Loebner Prizes for Artificial Intelligence (2006 at UCL; 2008 at Reading University). She is a member of the Alan Turing Centenary Advisory Committee and was active in raising awareness of Turing’s work for centenary events. She coorganised Turing100in2012 at Bletchley Park which gained the London2012 Inspire Mark for Education. She coordinated the Turing2014 experiment at The Royal Society London, June 2014 in which 1/3rd of judges did not correctly classify Eugene Goostman machine.

Latest media engagement:

Guardian podcast: human or machine error? On January 13, 2018 in Hawaii a text message was sent to the populace and visitors regarding a ballistic missile, it was a false alert: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/audio/2018/feb/09/hawaii-false-emergency-alert-ballistic-missile-chips-with-everything-podcast

Recent invited talks include:

• How to involve Citizen Scientists to develop Ethical AI for Knowledge Exchange. CERN/UNIGE workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Exchange, University of Geneva, 21 June 2019. https://indico.cern.ch/event/786048/timetable/#20190621.detailed

• AI Gems in Historical Text. 13 February 2019. Invited talk in Bar-Ilan workshop on technological tools for manuscript research. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel: https://is.biu.ac.il/en/album/3656

• Trust in AI, Social Robots and Conversational Agents. 22 November, 2018. Keynote at University of Amsterdam, RPA Communication Lecture Series: http://www.digicomlab.eu/events/current-events/special-session-trust-in-ai-social-robots-and-conversational-agents-with-dr-huma-shah/

• 'Turing's Substantive vs. Simulated Intelligence: can a machine answer any question?' 15-16 November 2018. Keynote in 'Rethinking, Reworking and Revolutionising the Turing test' interdisciplinary conference, University of Edinburgh: https://turingtest2018.wordpress.com/
• 'Can AI buttress safety & security?' 20 June 2018 in CityForum/IFSEC International 2018, ExCel London: https://www.cityforum.co.uk/event/ifsec-international-2018/
• In EEMA 2018 Conference, Microsoft London, 13-14 June: 'Maximising Digital Transformation'  https://annualconference.eema.org/programme/speakers/
• at The Spreading of Artificial Intelligence and its Control over Individuals, University of Padova, Italy, December 18, 2017: https://www.academia.edu/35577487/Will_AI_Benefit_Us
• at the 4th Global AI Assistant Summit, London, September 22nd: https://www.re-work.co/events/ai-assistant-summit-london-2017
• in Latin America's 'Brain and Mind Evolution' Symposium, 5-12 September 2017, Montevideo, Uruguay: http://www.iibce.edu.uy/UNIC/index.html 
• at Skolkovo AI conference in Russia, November 2016

Other activities include:

• Invited Speaker 'International Women's Day 2019', Stanmore College, Middlesex
• Participating in 'Feminism and Tech Day', at the Feminist Library in London, SE1 on November 25, 2017: http://feministlibrary.co.uk/feminism-and-tech-day/
• STEM Ambassador duties at  DSEI 'People & Skills Day' - ExCel centre, London, 15/09/17

Artificial Intelligence and Trust. Social Robotics. Digital trust. Digital Identity. Turing test. Deception-detection. Natural language understanding. Voice-activated devices. Chatbots. Conversational commerce. Human and machine intelligence. Human-computer interaction. Social, legal and ethical issues in STEM. Gender in STEM.