Rate My Professor Elizabeth Black

Professor Elizabeth Black is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Informatics at King’s College London, a position she has held since joining the institution in 2011. She currently serves as Director of the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences (NMES) Graduate School and as Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, partnering with Imperial College London to deliver a four-year PhD programme emphasizing model-based AI techniques for ensuring AI safety and trustworthiness. Prior to her appointment at King's, Black was a post-doctoral research assistant at the University of Oxford and held a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellowship at Utrecht University. She obtained her PhD in Computer Science from University College London in 2007, with a thesis on argument inquiry dialogues.

Black's research focuses on safe and trusted artificial intelligence, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, argumentation-theoretic models of agent reasoning, communication, and dialogue, as well as strategic aspects of argumentation-based dialogues and applications of AI in healthcare informatics. She is a member of the Reasoning and Planning research group in the Department of Informatics and has contributed to funded projects including 'Planning an Argument' (EPSRC, 2015-2016), 'Commodity Market Transparency Through Data Exploration' (TSB, 2014-2015), and 'PHAWM: Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies' (EPSRC, 2024-2028). Her influential publications include 'An inquiry dialogue system' (2009, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems), 'Opponent Modelling in Persuasion Dialogues' (2013, IJCAI), 'Automated planning of simple persuasion dialogues' (2014), 'A Relevance-theoretic Framework for Constructing and Deconstructing Enthymemes' (2012), and 'TSM-Bench: Detecting LLM-Generated Text in Real-World Wikipedia Editing Practices' (2024). Black is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, serves on the steering committee of the COMMA international conference series on Computational Models of Argument, and is an Editorial Board Member of the journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. She has featured in public discussions on trustworthy AI, such as 'Reimagining AI Futures' in 2023.