Kate Devlin

Kate Devlin
Devlin in 2020
Born
Adela Katharine Devlin

Northern Ireland
Alma mater
Known forComputer science, artificial intelligence, archaeology
Scientific career
InstitutionsKing's College London
Websitehttp://www.drkatedevlin.co.uk

Kate Devlin, born Adela Katharine Devlin, is a Northern Irish computer scientist specialising in Artificial intelligence and Human–computer interaction (HCI). She is best known for her work on human sexuality and robotics and was co-chair of the annual Love and Sex With Robots convention in 2016 held in London and was founder of the UK's first ever sex tech hackathon held in 2016 at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Society in the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London and is the author of Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots in addition to several academic papers.