Professor Drew Hemment is Theme Lead for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at The Alan Turing Institute, and Professor of Data Arts and Society at the University of Edinburgh. He is Principal Investigator of The New Real (www.newreal.cc) at The Alan Turing Institute and University of Edinburgh, which has advanced a transformative research agenda and a national platform on AI, Arts and Creativity. 
As Theme Lead at The Alan Turing Institute, Hemment investigates how the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences can shape emerging AI, and increase understanding on the fundamental interactions and synergies between AI, humans and physical systems. Hemment conducts research in the emerging field of Experiential AI, which addresses the task of providing end users with richer modes of model understanding and greater agency in co-creative experiments with AI. This area sits at the intersection of Visual Arts, Critical Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Explainable AI and Data Science, and proposes that creative research methods can help the AI field to develop in a societally responsible manner. Central to this is the development of transdisciplinary concepts, methods and tools to open up technology and data for exploration and discovery, and connect science and data to applications and impacts in the real world. 
Drew is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, a Turing Fellow, and an Editorial Advisor at Leonardo. In 1995, Drew founded FutureEverything, named by The Guardian one of the top 10 ideas festivals in the world. In 2016, he founded the GROW Observatory, the world’s first continental scale citizens’ observatory. 
His work has been recognised by 14 international awards including Soil Award 2019 (Winner), STARTS Prize 2018 (Honorary Mention), Lever Prize 2010 (Winner), and Prix Ars Electronica 2008 (Honorary Mention). 
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