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Mark William Kharas

Mark William Kharas

Senior EU Advisor
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture
Faculty of Humanities
Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science

mark.w.kharas@ntnu.no
+4773598527 MTFS, Øya
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About

I am a Senior EU advisor for the Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, where I assist researchers in applying for and securing EU-funded grants. I am also the Project Administrator of the Horizon Europe project BIAS: Mitigating Diversity Biases of AI in the Labor Market coordinated by the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture. I have also been the project manager for several EU and Norwegian Research Council-funded research projects. 

I have a Masters from Harvard University, where I studied South Asian languages, literature, and religion, and worked in the Harvard administration before coming to NTNU. In addition to my administration work, I am interested in ethics, religion, and spirituality as they relate to contemporary technology and robotics.

Current Project

  • BIAS: Mitigating Diversity Biases of AI in the Labor Market (2022–2026) is a Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Action coordinated by NTNU with a consortium of nine partners in nine European countries. Artificial Intelligence is increasingly deployed in the labour market to recruit, train, and engage employees or monitor for infractions. Therefore, the BIAS project will investigate its use in this context. The project will also study how human and societal biases are potentially reproduced in Al-based systems and develop tools to identify and mitigate these biases.

Former Projects

  • Robotics4EU (2021–2023) is a Horizon 2020 Coordination and Support Action that promotes responsible research and innovation principles to the robotics community across healthcare, inspection and maintenance of infrastructure, agri-food, and agile production with the goal of more widespread addoption and societal acceptance of robots.

  • INCITE (2021–2025) is a Horizon 2020 EIC Pathfinder project aiming to create a new breakout cancer treatment. It will use novel high-resolution 3D microfabrication technology to engineer a specially tailored microenvironment that will be inhabited by cells central for T cell education in order to generate the fittest anti-tumor T cells for advanced adoptice T cell therapy.

  • AUTOWORK (2020–2025) is an international research project funded by the Norwegian Research Council, where Norwegian and Australian researchers are studying the future of work as it is effected by automation, robotization, and digitalization. 

  • LIFEBOTS-Exchange (2019–2024) is a Marie Skłodowska Curie Action that facilitates researcher and staff exchange between universities and SMEs across Europe and South Korea with the goal of developing a holistic understanding of social robotics in the intersection of care, user interaction, technology, and society. LIFEBOTS is currently suspended due to travel restrictions as a result of COVID-19 but will resume as soon as conditions allow.

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2021

  • Kharas, Mark William; Søraa, Roger Andre; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Societal Readiness Plan for Robotics4EU. 2021.
    Report

2020

  • Søraa, Roger Andre; Manzi, Federico; Kharas, Mark William; Marchetti, Antonella; Massaro, Davide; Riva, Giuseppe; Serrano, Artur. (2020) Othering and Deprioritizing Older Adults’ Lives: Ageist Discourses During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Europe's Journal of Psychology. volum 16 (4).
    Editorial

Journal publications

  • Søraa, Roger Andre; Manzi, Federico; Kharas, Mark William; Marchetti, Antonella; Massaro, Davide; Riva, Giuseppe; Serrano, Artur. (2020) Othering and Deprioritizing Older Adults’ Lives: Ageist Discourses During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Europe's Journal of Psychology. volum 16 (4).
    Editorial

Report

  • Kharas, Mark William; Søraa, Roger Andre; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Societal Readiness Plan for Robotics4EU. 2021.
    Report
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