Mark Ryan
- Post address:
- Wageningen University & Research
Wageningen Economic Research
Droevendaalsesteeg 4
6708 PB Wageningen
The Netherlands
Profile
Mark Ryan is a Digital Ethics Researcher at Wageningen Economic Research, Wageningen University & Research. He specialises in the ethics of AI, data-sharing, and robotics. In his work at Wageningen, his research gives a special attention to ethical and societal concerns of developing and implementing digital technologies in the agri-food sector.
Mark was previously a researcher at KTH University (Stockholm), the University of Twente (the Netherlands), and the National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland). While at Twente, he worked on an interdisciplinary project (SHERPA), involving 11 partners from 6 European countries. This project was a European Union Horizon 2020 project (2018-2021, budget €3 million) and focused on the ethical, social and human rights implications of smart information systems (data analytics and artificial intelligence) within a European context.
While at the National University of Ireland, Galway, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the MARIO Project (Horizon 2020, budget €4 million, 2015-2018). This project assessed the difficulties of loneliness and isolation among people with dementia and the possibility of using service robots to ameliorate some these issues.
He has published on topics, such as the ethics of smart cities, self-driving vehicles, agricultural data analytics, social robotics, and AI. In his previous research, he has also published a 2016 monograph: Human Values, Environmental Ethics and Sustainability.
Publications
For a list of publications of Mark Ryan, go to ResearchGate.