Atoosa Kasirzadeh
Chancellor's Fellow
- Philosophy
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Contact details
- Email: atoosa.kasirzadeh@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Atoosa Kasirzadeh
Address
- Street
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Room 13.17
- City
- 40 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JX
Availability
by appointment
Background
I am a Chancellor’s Fellow (tenure-track assistant professor) in philosophy department and Edinburgh’s Futures Institute at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to this, I was a visiting research scientist at Google DeepMind (London, UK) and a philosophy postdoctoral fellow for the Humanizing Machine Intelligence Grand Challenge at the Australian National University. I hold a Ph.D. in philosophy, specializing in philosophy of science and technology, from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal and the Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD) where I worked on developing mathematical models and computational algorithms for large-scale, data-driven decision problems. Before that I studied engineering and mathematics in Switzerland, Sweden, and Iran.
I write and teach about issues such as ethics and philosophy of AI and computing, the roles of mathematics in empirical sciences and normative inquiry, the epistemological and social implications of mathematical and computational modeling in the socio-economic world, values in sciences and decision making, and modeling of morality. I have secondary interests in Middle Eastern (Islamic, Jewish, and Ancient Persian) philosophy.
Qualifications
Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science and Technology (University of Toronto)
Ph.D. in Mathematics (Ecolde Polytechnique de Montreal)
Responsibilities & affiliations
Edinburgh's Futures Institute
Centre for Technomoral Futures