Professor Gillian Dobbie

Gill is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland with extensive experience in artificial intelligence research. Her work focuses on developing purpose-driven, novel AI algorithms and addressing the real-world challenges of ensuring these technologies deliver meaningful societal benefit. Formerly the Science Advisor for the Precision Driven Health Joint Research Project, Gill maintains a strong interest in robustness, ethics, and fairness in AI. She collaborates widely across the healthcare sector, studying public comfort with AI in clinical settings, developing machine-learning models to detect dementia from routinely collected health data, exploring connections between delirium, diabetes, and dementia, and identifying factors contributing to undernutrition in older adults.