Dr Ramit Debnath

Churchill College

Executive Director, Centre for Human-Inspired AI
University Assistant Professor
Director of Studies and Fellow, Churchill College

Available to supervise doctoral students

Available to supervise masters students

Available for consultancy

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Location

JD-1-16, James Dyson Building, Trumpington Street, Main Engineering Site, CB21PX

About

Dr. Ramit Debnath is a University Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA) at the University of Cambridge. He is an elected member of the UK Government's Methods Advisor Group (MAG) at Department of Work and Pensions.

Ramit is the Founder and Director of the Cambridge Collective Intelligence & Design group and the climaTRACES lab at CRASSH . He is a Fellow and Director of Studies at Churchill College and Cambridge Zero. He has visiting academic roles at the Caltech, leading the Climate and Social Intelligence Lab and at Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, leading the Inclusive Ordering Initiative.

Dr Debnath has a background in electrical engineering and computational social sciences with an MPhil and PhD from Cambridge as a Gates Scholar.

Research

Dr Debnath's research involves designing novel paradigms of responsible and human-centric AI systems to advance climate and environmental sustainability actions across urban and regional scales. This niche and rapidly emerging field is pivotal for mitigating global emissions and ensuring that AI is developed safely and for the public good. He uses computational social sciences and systems thinking to achieve his research objectives.

Dr. Debnath serves as an Associate Editor for Energy Research and Social Science (Elsevier) and npj Climate Action (Nature Portfolio) and on the editorial board of Communications Sustainability (Nature), PLOS Global Public Health, iScience (Cell Press) and Humanities and Social Science Communications (Nature Portfolio).

Teaching and supervision