Join us for Professor Hamed Haddadi’s Imperial Inaugural online or in person.

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We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 8 January!

Abstract

Designing and building human-centred systems requires one to gather, and maintain, an awareness of the latest works across several disciplines. Hamed Haddadi is Professor of Human-Centred Systems at Imperial College London, where he has tried to learn from a broad set of stellar scientists and practitioners, and often (though not enough) from individual subjects (human beings, or animals). In his inaugural lecture Hamed will walk you through this journey and what he has learned as an individual, alongside the mistakes that he should have learnt from. He will take the opportunity to talk about his path from the council estate in Ladbroke Grove to Imperial College’s North Kensington campus a few blocks away. Importantly, these random hops and journey highlights the roles of several generous individuals along the way who guided and helped Hamed selflessly.

Biography

Hamed is the Professor of Human-Centred Systems at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. He also serves as a Security Science Fellow of the Institute for Security Science and Technology. In his industrial role, he is the Chief Scientist at Brave Software where he works on developing privacy-preserving analytics protocols. He is interested in User-Centred Systems, IoT, Applied Machine Learning, and Data Security & Privacy. He enjoys designing and building systems that enable better use of our digital footprint, while respecting users’ privacy. You can see more about Hamed here.