Siân Lindley

Senior Principal Research Manager @Microsoft

Cambridge, GB

I co-lead People-Centric AI, a multi-disciplinary research area that develops knowledge, model capabilities, and experiences. These enable human agency and skill, support creativity and collaboration, and ensure equitable representation and participation. A key aim is to produce principles and insights to shape human-AI interaction, especially as models are given greater flexibility and control over the content and interfaces they generate, and as the practices and expectations of people using these systems evolve. For us, success means delivering AI-enabled experiences that empower all people while preserving and enhancing human capability and connection.Whilst at Microsoft (in various roles - see below) I have also led the New Computing Experiences and before that the Collaborative Intelligence research areas; served as UX lead on Project Alexandria, which developed systems to enable people to work effectively with organisational knowledge; managed a project on the implications of the file metaphor for the concept of ownership; studied different modes of web use; directed a project on the design of technology for older adults; explored the use of a wearable camera for reflection on personal experience; and conducted field trials of messaging devices and situated displays.

University of York

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology

University of Sussex

Master of Science (MSc), Human-Centred Computer Systems

University of York

Bachelor of Science (BSc) (Hons), Psychology