Edmond Awad

Edmond Awad is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Exeter. Concurrently, he serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Uehiro Oxford Institute and Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford, and as an Associate Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

His academic credentials include a B.Sc. in Informatics Engineering from Tishreen University (Syria, 2007), M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computing and Information Science/Argumentation and Multi-agent Systems from Masdar Institute (UAE, 2011/2015), and an additional M.Sc. in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT (2017).

Dr. Awad's research bridges Computational Ethics and Artificial Intelligence through large-scale human behavior experiments. He pioneered the Moral Machine platform that collected 100 million moral judgments on autonomous vehicle dilemmas from 10 million global users, and co-created MyGoodness for charity dilemma analysis. His work integrates Computational Social Science with Multi-agent Systems to model ethical decision-making across cultural contexts.

His findings have been published in Nature, PNAS, and Nature Human Behaviour, receiving extensive coverage from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and other major international media outlets.