Peter Darch

• Faculty Affiliate, National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Responsible AI and data ethics and policy; open science and reproducibility; data quality; data curation; information systems for research; and collaborative work processes and technologies.

Peter Darch focuses on responsible AI and data ethics, and on information systems to support Open Science. He leads studies of large research organizations to examine how these organizations develop and implement policies, processes, and systems for AI- and data-driven research. His research also shapes policy and tool development for more effective, ethical, and transparent research.

Darch is Responsible AI and Data Ethics lead for the NSF-funded Institute for Geospatial Understanding through an Integrative Discovery Environment (I-GUIDE), a large, multi-year project building an AI platform for research. He has led development of I-GUIDE’s Toolkit for Responsible AI and also serves on I-GUIDE’s Executive Committee.

Previously, Darch was a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA’s Department of Information Studies examining relationships between information systems, data, and collaborative practices in astronomy and the earth sciences. He earned a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Oxford, an MA in the History and Philosophy of Science from Durham University and an MMath in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.

His research has been published in journals such as Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society, the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and the International Journal on Digital Libraries.

Darch developed the undergraduate course Ethics and Policy for Data Science, now a core requirement for multiple data science degree programs at UIUC. He has advised doctoral students working on technology ethics, data quality, and Open Science. 

• Spring 2025 - Ethics & Policy for Data Scien - IS467BCU
• Spring 2025 - Ethics & Policy for Data Scien - IS467BD1
• Spring 2025 - Ethics & Policy for Data Scien - IS467BD2
• Spring 2025 - Independent Study - IS589PTD
• Summer 2025 - Ethics & Policy for Data Scien - IS467OAU
• Summer 2025 - Independent Study - IS589PTD

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