Kathleen Fraser is a computer scientist at the National Research Council Canada’s (NRC) Digital Technologies Research Centre, specializing in AI. In 2024, she represented Canada as part of the NRC delegation at the inaugural meeting of the International AI Safety Institutes and participated in an international joint testing exercise presented at the AI Action Summit in Paris in early 2025, highlighting her leadership in AI safety and ethics.

Fraser’s research focuses on natural language processing (NLP), addressing biases and safety issues in AI. She has co-authored papers on racial and gender biases, human rights concerns in toxic language detection and mitigating stereotypes. She also explores NLP applications in healthcare.

Fraser earned her PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto, followed by a postdoc at the University of Gothenburg. She has been an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University since 2022.

Mary Kelly is an Assistant Professor in Carleton University’s Department of Cognitive Science and leads the ANIMUS lab, which studies cognition using computational models and artificial intelligence (AI).

With a background in machine learning, psychology and philosophy, Kelly examines how cognitive processes like learning, memory and language acquisition can inform AI. One focus of her and her team’s research at the ANIMUS lab is on ethical AI–exploring how current AI can make unsafe decisions and, by studying how humans cooperate, reason and empathize with each other, we can develop safer, more caring AI. By bridging human cognition and AI, she aims to develop fairer, more adaptable systems.

Kelly holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Queen’s University and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Carleton. She was previously a Researcher at Penn State and an Assistant Professor at Bucknell University.

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