Personal Details
|
| Nationality: British |
| Phone: |
| Email: |
Qualifications
| PGCHE: Middlesex University, London | 2015 - 2016 |
| Passed. | |
| PhD: Department of Computing and Electronic Systems, University of Essex | 2004 - 2008 |
| Under the supervision of Professor Owen Holland I developed new techniques for analyzing machines for consciousness and built a simulator of spiking neural networks that was used to control the SIMNOS robot. More information about this PhD is available at www.davidgamez.eu/mc-thesis. | |
| Overall grade: Passed. | |
| MSc IT: Queen Mary, University of London | 2000 - 2001 |
| I took courses on Java, GUI design, UML, databases, C++ and artificial intelligence. My final project was the development of an editor and simulator of biologically structured neural networks. | |
| Overall grade: Distinction | |
| PhD: Department of Philosophy, University of Essex | 1996 - 2001 |
| My philosophy PhD applied methods taken from Continental philosophy to self-reflexive problems in philosophy and science [PDF]. | |
| Overall grade: Passed | |
| BA: Trinity College, University of Cambridge | 1992 - 1995 |
| First year, Natural Sciences (First); second and third year, Philosophy (Upper Second). | |
| Overall grade: 2:1 | |
| Secondary Education: Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury | 1986 - 1991 |
| STEP: Physics, Grade 1; S-Level: Maths, Distinction; A-Level: Maths, Physics, Chemistry, all Grade A; 11 GCSEs, all Grade A. |
Employment
| Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, London | 2019 - present |
| I supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students, lead computer science courses and carry out research. | |
| Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, London | 2016 - 2019 |
| I supervised undergraduate and postgraduate students, led computer science courses and carried out research. | |
| Associate Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, London | 2015 - 2016 |
| I supervised undergraduate students, led a third year computer science course and carried out research. | |
| Research Fellow, Department of Informatics/Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex, Brighton |
2012 - 2015 |
| Supported by a JTF Turing Research Fellowship I worked on a three year project titled 'The Scientific Study of Natural and Artificial Minds'. | |
| Research Associate, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London | 2010 - 2012 |
| In collaboration with Professor Murray Shanahan I worked on new techniques for the simulation and analysis of spiking neural networks. | |
| Research Associate, Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems, Imperial College, London | 2009 - 2010 |
| In collaboration with Professor Igor Aleksander I researched new techniques for analyzing neural networks for information integration and consciousness. | |
| Software Developer, Trinity Mirror Group, London. | 2008 - 2009 |
| I carried out back end web development for the regional sites owned by the Trinity Mirror Group using a mixture of Java, Coldfusion, HTML and Javascript. In this role I maintained existing code and developed new web services using Spring, Hibernate, Oracle, Velocity and SOAP. | |
| Lecturer, International University of America, London | 2007 |
| I developed and taught an undergraduate course on 'Computer Applications in Business and Finance' that covered general computer science topics, such as web design and databases, as well as artificial intelligence and robotics. More information about this course is available at http://iua.davidgamez.eu. | |
| Researcher, Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London | 2004 - 2006 |
| I worked part time at QMUL developing techniques for anomaly detection and extending the correlation methodologies developed by the Safeguard project. | |
| Research Assistant, Department of Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary, University of London | 2001 - 2004 |
| I worked on the IST Safeguard project, which built an agent system to protect and automatically repair safety critical systems, such as electricity and telecommunications networks. Anomaly detection, Petri nets and Bayesian networks were some of the technologies that we integrated into this system. | |
| Teaching Assistant, University of Essex | 1999 - 2000 |
| I taught scepticism and the Enlightenment to first year undergraduates. | |
| Laboratory Assistant, Sizewell A Power Station | 1991 - 1992 |
| I learnt how the plant worked, analyzed the water and improved the procedures for some of the less regular tests. |
Invited Talks
| Workshop on Investigating Consciousness in Humans, Animals, and Artificial Systems, Ruhr-Universitat, Germany, June 2023 |
| Invited talk on 'Seeing is Deceiving: Why Consciousness Cannot be Inferred from Behaviour in Animals and Artificial Systems'. [Slides] |
| Department Seminar, University of Campinas, Brazil, October 2021 |
| Invited talk on 'Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Consciousness'. [Slides] [Video] |
| Panel Discussion on Black Mirror as Philosophy, Hawaii Con, September 2020 |
| Invited to participate in a panel discussion about Black Mirror and Philosophy. [Video] |
| Special Virtual Meeting on Creative Explorations in Artificial Intelligence, 2020 |
| Invited talk on 'What is Artificial Intelligence?' [Slides]. |
| COPPE Seminar, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2019 |
| Invited talk on 'Understanding and Modelling Consciousness' [Slides] [Video]. |
| Workshop on Consciousness, Models and the Artificial, part of Creativity 2019, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Invited keynote talk on 'Understanding and Modelling Consciousness'. |
| COGS Seminar, University of Sussex, 2019 |
| Invited talk on 'How can we Discover General Scientific Theories of Consciousness?'. |
| Knowledge Lab Seminar, Birbeck, University of London, 2018 |
| Invited talk on 'Generalizable Scientific Theories of Machine Consciousness'. |
| SRI Workshops on Consciousness, 2017 |
| Invited to participate in a series of workshops on consciousness that were held in the US and the UK. |
| Headstrong Club, Lewes, 23rd September 2015 |
| Invited talk on 'Can We Build a Conscious Machine?'. |
| Special Symposium on Machine Consciousness, 10th Polish Philosophical Congress, Poznan, 18th September 2015 |
| Invited talk on 'From Human to Machine Consciousness'. |
| Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Sussex, Brighton, 1st March 2011 |
| Invited talk on 'The Scientific Study of Human and Machine Consciousness'. |
| Whitehead Lecture, Goldsmiths College, London, 4th December 2010 |
| Invited talk on 'Perception, Causation and the Scientific Study of Human and Machine Consciousness'. |
| BICS 2010, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, 15th July 2010 |
| Invited keynote speaker. Gave a talk on 'Developing and Debugging Conscious Machines'. |
| Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics, University of Reading, UK, 27th April 2010 |
| Invited tutorial with Igor Aleksander on 'Informational Measures of Consciousness'. |
| Bath AI Seminar Series, University of Bath, 19th November 2009 |
| Invited talk on 'The Development and Analysis of Conscious Machines'. |
| NeuPhi Neurophilosophy Group, University of Boston, 29th October 2009 |
| Invited talk on 'The Science of Human and Machine Consciousness'. |
| The Philosopher's Rally, University of Twente, The Netherlands, 12-13th May 2009 |
| Invited keynote speaker. |
| Department of Philosophy, University of Essex, 4th December 2008 |
| Invited talk on 'Machine Consciousness'. |
| Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness, Helsinki, 21-22 August 2008 |
| Invited paper on 'A Systematic Approach to Synthetic Phenomenology'. |
| Panel on 'The Limits of Knowledge', ICA, London, 19th June 2007 |
| Invited to participate in a panel with Hilary Lawson, Emma Kay, Stuart Sim and Mark Vernon. |
| Trondheim Matchmaking Festival, Trondheim, 2006 |
| Invited talk on 'Machine Consciousness'. |
| Borderlines, Forum for European Philosophy, London, 2005 |
| Invited to participate in a panel with Hilary Lawson and Julie Kuhlken that introduced the book What Philosophy Is. |
Interviews
| Engatica, 2022. |
| Interview on 'Do machines have consciousness?'. |
| Risk Roundup, 2019. |
| Interview on 'Human Consciousness to Machine Consciousness'. |
Other Talks and Posters
| Kinds of Intelligence 2, Cambridge, UK, September 2021 |
| Talk on 'A Universal Measure of Intelligence based on Prediction'. [Slides] [Video] |
| Mancept Workshop on 'Governing Artificial Intelligence', University of Manchester, September 2021 |
| Paper on 'Using Universal Measures of Intelligence to Govern Artificial Intelligence'. [Paper]. |
| Artificial Intelligence Seminar, Middlesex University, February 2020 |
| Talk on 'Prediction and Intelligence'. [Slides]. |
| AAAI Spring Symposium on 'Towards Conscious AI Systems', Stanford, USA, March 2019 |
| Talk on 'Four Preconditions for Solving MC4 Machine Consciousness'. [Slides]. |
| CenSAMM Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Apocalypse, Bedford, April 2018 |
| Talk on 'Machine Consciousness and the AI Apocalypse'. [Slides] [Video]. |
| Theory of Computing and Artificial Intelligence (ToCAI) seminar, Middlesex University, March 2016 |
| Talk on 'The Science of Consciousness and Scientific Theories about the Brain'. |
| Computability in Europe (CiE), Bucharest, July 2015 |
| Talk on 'Are Computations Objectively Present in the Physical World?'. |
| Turing Centenary Research Project, 3rd Workshop on Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics, CiE, Bucharest, June 2015 |
| Talk on 'How can we Scientifically Study Consciousness?'. |
| Work in Progress Seminar, University of Sussex, May 2015 |
| Talk on 'How can we Scientifically Study Consciousness?'. |
| Turing Centenary Research Project: 2nd Workshop, Columbia University, New York, May 2014 |
| Talk on 'Computation, Information and the Correlates of Consciousness'. |
| The 21st Century Body Reloaded Symposium, UCL, London, November 2013 |
| Talk on 'Modification and Enhancement of Consciousness'. |
| Wiston House Consciousness Retreat, Sussex, UK, September 2013 |
| Talk on 'A Computational Approach to the Discovery of the Correlates of Consciousness'. |
| Computability in Europe (CiE), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, July 2013 |
| Talk on 'Are there Computational Correlates of Consciousness in the Brain?'. |
| Workshop on Mind, Mechanism and Mathematics, Computability in Europe (CiE), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy, June 2013 |
| Talk on 'Mathematically-defined Ontologies and the Correlates of Consciousness'. |
| AISB Emergence of Consciousness Workshop, St Mary's University College, London, May 2013 |
| Talk on 'The Emergence of the Concept of Consciousness'. |
| Fifth Philosophy of Information Workshop, University of Hertfordshire, March 2013 |
| Talk on 'Are Information or Data Patterns Correlated with Consciousness?'. |
| Sackler Centre Seminar, University of Sussex, 22nd August 2012 |
| Talk on 'Philosophical and Experimental Approaches to the Scientific Study of Consciousness'. |
| CogSys 2012, Vienna, Austria, February 2012 |
| Poster with Z. Fountas, M. Shanahan and A.K. Fidjeland on 'A Cognitive System with a Neurally-Implemented Global Workspace'. |
| Philosophy Now Radio Show, UK, February 2012 |
| Participated in a Philosophy Now Radio Show panel on posthumanism and transhumanism. |
| AI-2011, Cambridge, UK, December 2011 |
| Participated in demonstration and panel as part of special session on 'Alan Turing and the Turing Test for Machine Intelligence'. |
| Towards a Science of Consciousness, Stockholm, Sweden, 1st May 2011 |
| Presented a half day workshop with Ron Chrisley on 'From Neural Correlates to Falsifiable Predictions: How Consciousness Research can become more Scientific'. |
| Towards a Science of Consciousness, Stockholm, Sweden, 4th May 2011 |
| Presented a paper on 'Reporting Conscious States: A Neuro-phenomenological Analysis'. |
| EU Cognition II Meeting, Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Presented a poster with Andreas Fidjeland, David Gamez, Edgars Lazdins and Murray Shanahan on 'NeMo, SpikeStream, iSpike:Three Tools for Biologically-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks and Robotics'. |
| AISB Symposium on Machine Consciousness, York, UK, 7th April 2011 |
| Presented a paper on 'Information Integration, Data Integration and Machine Consciousness'. |
| International Workshop on Bio-Inspired Robots, Nantes, France |
| Poster with Andreas Fidjeland, David Gamez, Edgars Lazdins and Murray Shanahan on 'iSpike: A Spiking Neural Interface for the iCub Robot'. |
| ASSC 14, Toronto, Canada, 24th June 2010 |
| Gave a tutorial with Igor Aleksander on 'Informational Measures of Consciousness'. |
| ASSC 14, Toronto, Canada, 25th June 2010 |
| Presented a paper with Igor Aleksander on 'A Critique and Extension of Consciousness as Integrated Information'. |
| AAAI Fall Symposium on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, Washington, 6th November 2009 |
| Presented a paper on 'Taking a Mental Stance Towards Artificial Systems'. |
| International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'07), Porto, 2007 |
| Presented a paper on 'SpikeStream: A Fast and Flexible Simulator of Spiking Neural Networks'. |
| NeuroIT Summer School, Delmenhorst, 2007 |
| Presented a poster on 'Conscious Systems for SIMNOS'. |
| BSPS Annual Conference 2007 |
| Presented a paper on 'Science and Self-reflexivity'. |
| PPNB, Bristol, 2007 |
| Presented a paper on 'Analysing Artificial Systems for Consciousness'. |
| IEEE Conference on Advances in Cybernetics Systems, Sheffield Hallam University, 2006 |
| Presented a paper on 'Two Simulation Tools for Biologically Inspired Virtual Robotics'. |
| AISB 2006, University of Bristol |
| Presented a paper on 'The XML Approach to Synthetic Phenomenology'. |
| McDonnell Workshop: Neurophilosophy: The State of the Art, 2005 |
| Presented a paper with Owen Holland on 'An Anthropomimetic Robot Platform for Consciousness Research'. |
| AISB 2005, University of Hertfordshire |
| Presented a paper on 'An Ordinal Probability Scale for Synthetic Phenomenology'. |
| Applied Vision Association Annual Meeting, University of Bristol, 2005 |
| Poster with Iain Gilchrist, Owen Holland, Rob Knight, Tom Troscianko and Ben Vincent on 'A biomimetic research platform for active vision research'. |
| MMM-ACNS Workshop, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2003 |
| Presented a paper on 'Safeguarding SCADA systems with anomaly detection'. |
| SEP 6th Annual Conference, University of Essex, 2003 |
| Presented a paper on 'Pax Americana'. |
| Philosophy As Conference, The Philosophy Programme, University of London, 2002 |
| I co-organized this conference and presented a paper on 'Philosophy as an entertaining as structure'. |
| 10th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modelling and Analysis, Monterrey, California, 2002 |
| Presented a paper on 'An architecture for anomaly detection in large complex critical infrastructures'. |
| SEP 5th Annual Conference, University College, Cork, 2002 |
| Presented a paper on 'Alienation ends with the modern subject'. |
Grants and Awards
Lab42 Essay Prize. First prize of $1000 for an essay on the topic "Which properties and structures must a virtual world have to enable the successful creation of human-level artificial intelligence?".
JTF Turing Research Fellowship. Awarded £75,000 for a three year project titled 'The Scientific Study of Natural and Artificial Minds'.
Courvoisier Future 500. Selected as one of the UK's top 50 achievers in the Science and Innovation category, 2007.
EPSRC Studentship for PhD at the Department of Computer Science, University of Essex, 2004 - 2007.
Drapers Prize, Queen Mary, University of London, 2001.
EPSRC Studentship for MSc IT at Queen Mary, University of London, 2000 - 2001.
Darwin Prize for Science, Shrewsbury School, 1992.
