Edmond Awad

Edmond Awad is a Senior Lecturer (Tenured Assistant Professor) in the Department of Economics and the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Exeter. He is also a Research Associate at the University of Oxford and an Associate Research Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (2023–2025) and a Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT (2017–2019).

In 2016, Edmond led the design, development, and research of Moral Machine, a website that gathers human decisions on moral dilemmas faced by driverless cars. The website has been visited by over 10 million users, who contributed their judgements on 100 million dilemmas. Another website that Edmond co-created, called MyGoodness, collected judgments over 3 million charity dilemmas.

Edmond’s work appeared in major academic journals, including Nature, PNAS, and Nature Human Behaviour, and it has been covered in major media outlets including The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, and El País.

Edmond holds a bachelor degree (2007) in Informatics Engineering from Tishreen University (Syria), a master’s degree (2011) in Computing and Information Science and a PhD (2015) in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Khalifa University (UAE), and a master’s degree (2017) in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. His research interests span AI Ethics, Computational Social Science, and Multi-agent Systems.