Andrew Trask

Research Affiliate, Centre for the Governance of AI

Andrew is a PhD student at the University of Oxford and a Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind studying Privacy and AI. He is also a passionate AI teacher, having taught 2 different introductory AI courses (12K+ enrollments each) and written an introductory Deep Learning book which has sold over 10K copies. He also started and leads OpenMined, an open source community of over 5000 researchers, engineers, and enthusiasts dedicated to making the concepts and tools necessary for privacy preserving AI reach mainstream adoption. He is also a member of the United Nations Privacy Task Force, raising awareness and lowering the barrier-to-entry for the use of privacy preserving analytics within the public sector.