Bahareh Heravi

Professor of AI and Media, University of Surrey

Session: Extra! Extra! AI & the Future of Journalism

Dr Bahareh Heravi is a senior academic in AI & Media at the Institute for People-Centred AI at the University of Surrey. She specialises in Data & Computational Journalism, data storytelling, data visualisation, and the use of AI in journalism and media. Bahareh sits on the Irish Government's Open Data Governance Board and is an expert evaluator and a project monitor for the European Commission and the Research Data Alliance. She is a founding co-chair of the European Data & Computational Journalism Conference, a steering committee member of the Computation + Journalism Conference, and the co-chair of the Research Data Alliance’s Science Communication Interest Group. Prior to her academic work, Bahareh worked over 10 years in the industry, designing, developing and managing Information Systems in various small, medium and large organisations in different sectors. She co-founded a successful software development company when she was 19 and sold her shares nearly 10 years later in 2010. Bahareh was selected as one of Silicon Republic's Sci-Tech 100, and was named one of "22 high-flying scientists making the world a better place" in 2019.