David Barber received a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University and subsequently a PhD in Theoretical Physics (Statistical Mechanics) from Edinburgh University. He is the Director of the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence, which aims to develop next-generation AI techniques. He has broad research interests related to the application of probabilistic modelling and reasoning. David is a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and the cofounder of the startups re:infer and humanloop and a Distinguished Scientist at UiPath.