Dr.Rui Zhao is a researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. He is interested in supporting individual's privacy and control, balancing individuals' and societal collective interests, and challenges of decentralized applications.
He works in the EWADA project, led by Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, centred around privacy-preserving and autonomy-respecting data processing in decentralized architectures like Solid (Social Linked Data). In addition to his role at the University of Oxford, he is the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer [CTIO] at the Institute of AI.
He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where he worked on formal modelling and automated reasoning of data-use policies in decentralized research contexts. He received a bachelor's degree from Northwest A&F University, and masters degree from University of Edinburgh, working on extending and optimizing scientific workflow deployment with dynamic information at runtime.
For more info, please check Rui Zhao - University of Oxford, Rui Zhao - Google Scholar, and Rui's personal page.
