Elizabeth Daly

Dr. Elizabeth M. Daly is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Research, where she leads the Interactive AI Group at IBM Research - Ireland and serves as Global Strategy Sub-theme Lead for Trustworthy Human-Centered AI and Governance across IBM Research.

Her research focuses on bidirectional interactive AI systems where systems and users mutually influence each other. Her work spans AI governance frameworks, human-centered AI design and evaluation, social network dynamics, trust and fairness in AI systems, and interactive machine learning.

She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin in 2007, focusing on social network analysis for routing in disconnected delay-tolerant MANETs. Following her doctorate, she conducted postdoctoral research at the IBM Research Centre for Social Software in Cambridge, MA, examining the intersection of social networks and information systems. Her research background spans social network analysis, recommender systems, and human-centered AI.