Dr Asress Gikay
Senior Lecturer in AI, Disruptive Innovation and Law
Elliott Jaques 008
- Email: asress.gikay@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266651
Summary
Asress Gikay is a Senior Lecturer in AI, Disruptive Innovation, and Law at Brunel University London. He is an expert in legal and policy aspects of artificial intelligence including facial recognition technology, privacy and data protection. He has authored several publications on AI regulation in reputable academic journals including the Cambridge Law Journal and the Interntional Jounnal of Law and Information Technology.
His work has been widely cited by academics and media platforms including BBC News, the Telegraph, the Weekly UK and many others. Asress has been interviewed by on BBC News and BBC South Today on the regulation of facial recogntion technology in law enforcement. He contributes to several media platforms including the Guardian, the EU Observer, the Conversation UK and Policing Insight on various current topics involving AI, facial recognition, and data protection. Some of his works have been republished in several media outlets and blogs around the world, including Yahoo News, Policing Insight, Inform's Blog, and Yahoo Movies.
Asress is a member of Brunel University Center for AI: Social and Digital Innovation, and leads the centre's regular Thought Leadership Series, where academics, researchers and practictioners discuss the socio-economic, ethical, political, and policy challenges and opportunities AI technologies bring. He also serves as a board member of the AI Centre.
BBC Interview on Live Facial Recognition
Op-Eds
Where EU efforts to regulate AI fall short(EU Observer, September 13, 2024), https://euobserver.com/digital/are9af2ae9.
Facial recongition helps fight serious crime, but for minor UK offences, it should be off limits(The Gaurdian, December 24, 2023), https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/24/facial-recognition-uk-drivers-licence-police-lineup.
Qualifications
PhD(with honour), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies(Italy), FHEA, SJD, LLM & LLB
Responsibility
Asress teaches AI, Law and Ethics, Law, Policy, and Goverance of AI, and Privacy and Data Protection at postgraduate level at Brunel Law School. He is also the Director of Equality and Diversity at the law the school.
Newest selected publications
Gikay, AA. (2024) 'Risks, innovation, and adaptability in the UK’s incrementalism versus the European Union’s comprehensive artificial intelligence regulation'. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 32 (1). pp. 1 - 25. ISSN: 0967-0769 Open Access Link
Gikay, AA. (2023) 'Regulating Use by Law Enforcement Authorities of Real-Time Facial Recognition Technology in Public Spaces: An Incremental Approach'. Cambridge Law Journal, 82 (3). pp. 414 - 449. ISSN: 0008-1973 Open Access Link
Ondersma, C., Varney, E., Kailiang, M., Iheme, W., Rochemont, S., Atkinson, J., et al. (Accepted) 'Discrimination, Vulnerable Consumers and Financial Inclusion: Fair Access to Financial Services and the Law', in Gikay, A. and Stanescu, C. (eds.) Discrimination, Vulnerable Consumers and Financial Inclusion: Fair Access to Financial Services and the Law. Open Access Link
Gikay, AA. (2021) 'The American Way—Until Machine Learning Algorithm Beats the Law? Algorithmic Consumer Credit Scoring in the EU and US'. Case Western Reserve Journal of Law, Technology and the Internet, 12. pp. 1 - 60.Open Access Link
Gikay, AA. and Stanescu, CG. (2019) 'Technological Populism and Its Archetypes: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies'. Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2019 (2). pp. 65 - 109. ISSN: 1459-9686 Open Access Link