Alva Markelius

Alva is an AI Ethics & Society MSt student at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. She is also a research engineer at the DICE - lab at the Institution for Applied IT, University of Gothenburg and recipient of 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics™ award 2024.

Her main research interests are the ethics of social AI and robotics, embodied cognition, affect and emotion, gender and intersectionality, global AI narratives and socio-technical imaginaries. She is currently working on the I-AIMS project at DICE lab related to LLMs in vehicle driver monitoring systems, and her dissertation about integrating LLMs into social robotics.

She is also president of Cambridge University AI Ethics Society - a student run society aimed at creating a space to critically explore how AI and emerging technologies can best secure and further the ideals of social justice and democracy at local, national, and international scales. Furthermore, she is part of the Centre for Human Inspired AI Early Career Community Committee in Cambridge.

She obtained her bachelor degree in cognitive science at the University of Gothenburg and Seoul National University where she specialised in AI and robotics.