Adrian Weller, PhD

Growth Partner

Adrian is a Director of Research in machine learning at the University of Cambridge and Head of Safe and Ethical AI at the Alan Turing Institute.

Adrian has broad interests across machine learning and artificial intelligence, their applications, and helping to ensure beneficial outcomes for society. He holds a Turing AI Fellowship for Trustworthy Machine Learning.

Adrian is a Director of Research and Programme Director for Trust and Society at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI); an advisor to the Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP), and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER); and a fellow at Sidney Sussex College. In addition, he is a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Council on the Future of AI, and is co-director of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) programme on Human-centric Machine Learning. Adrian previously served as Programme Director for AI at the Turing Institute, on the advisory board of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI) and in the UNESCO ad hoc expert group on the ethics of AI.

Adrian is an active angel investor and advisor to technology startups including Powerset (acquired by Microsoft), Cyvera (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Simplex (acquired by Nuvei), and retrain.ai.

Prior to his career in machine learning research, Adrian was a fixed income trader for nearly 15 years at global institutions including Goldman Sachs and Citadel.

Adrian has a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University and a BA/MA in Mathematics from Trinity College at Cambridge. He also received an MBE for services to digital innovation in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2022.