Rana el Kaliouby is an AI pioneer and entrepreneur who works on artificial emotional intelligence. She has been recognised in the BBC's list of inspiring and influential women of 2019.

Professor Neil Lawrence has been appointed as the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at Cambridge, supported by a benefaction from the world-leading British AI company.

Srinivasan Keshav joins the Department as the new Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science. He will work on computer science technologies that support renewable energy and combat climate change.