The global digital transformation is changing many aspects of our world. Besides their exciting and useful innovations, digital platforms and services have also caused serious concerns regarding their features and consequences for instance in terms of their fairness, ethicality and lawfulness, privacy, human-centricity, social consequences, inclusiveness and environmental impact.
As a result, many activists, scientists, engineers, lawyers, and policymakers are engaged to understand and tackle such issues. The Sustainable Computing Lecture Series (SCLS) provides an enabling space for colleagues from different disciplines to discuss the challenges of the digital world and their potential solutions in an interdisciplinary environment. Our objective is the co-creation of a lively community that fosters dialogue and research across disciplines and sectors of society.
Link to online sessions:
Please contact [events (at) sustainablecomputing {dot} eu]
Chairs:
Soheil Human
I’m the director of the Sustainable Computing Lab at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU Wien). At WU, I am conducting research and teaching on topics related to sustainability, human-centricity, accountability, lawfulness, and ethicality of soico-technical systems and digital transformation. I am also a lecturer at the University of Vienna where I teach courses on the intersection of Cognitive Science and Digital Science. How do emerging digital technologies influence our perceptions, experiences, and behaviours? How can we ensure the practical sustainability, human-centricity, accountability, lawfulness, and ethicality of digital socio-technical systems? How can we increase digital technologies’ pluralism, inclusiveness, and understandability? Among others, these are some of the research questions that matter to me.
Arianna Rossi
I carry out interdisciplinary research on human aspects of privacy, legal design, online manipulation, and online trust at the Interdisciplinary Center for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg, at the intersection between computer science, design, law, and linguistics. I have a mixed background, with a joint international Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology (University of Bologna), a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (University of Luxembourg) and a M.Sc. in Linguistics with a focus on Natural Language Processing. I also organize events to promote legal innovation and build an open culture for law and technology.
Cristiana Santos:
I am an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University with interdisciplinary expertise in Law and Tech . I hold a joint international Doctoral Degree in Law, Science and Technology (University of Bologna) and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (University of Luxembourg).
My research area is online privacy and data protection and their interface with consumer law and legal informatics.
My drive is to discover problematic practices from organizations within case-studies, and inform policy makers with ground-based analytical research to address gaps in law & tech.
Martin Degeling
I’m a post-doctoral researcher at Ruhr-University Bochum. My reseach interests are usable privacy and security as well as data protection with a focus on web and IoT. Earlier I was at CMU working on a personalized privacy assistant for the IoT.