Tom Jackson

Tom Jackson (BSc, PhD) is a Professor of Information and Knowledge Management at Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University. He has over 20 years’ experience of research and industrial consultancy and secured over £40million of research funding. Known for the creation of EMOTIVE.AI which holds the world’s best f-measure for fine grained emotion detection. A system that has been able to predict in real-time the outcome of events like US and UK elections through to mental health conditions.

His research also includes the pioneering work on the dark side of digital decarbonisation and the impact on the environment; the first publicly available data carbon forecasting toolkit, which serves as a valuable resource for individuals and organisations embarking on their net-zero journey; the first model of information overload, and in his earlier career he was nicknamed ‘Dr Email’ by the BBC for his work on the impact of interrupts in the workplace. He is a Member of the OECD.AI Expert Panel for Compute and Climate; Chair of the Technical Working Group for Ethics in the Government National Digital Twin Programme; and an Independent Scientific Adviser – BridgeAI Programme – The Alan Turing Institute. He's currently contributing to the revision of the Green House Gases Protocol's Scope 3 standard, as a member of the GHG Protocol Scope 3 Technical Working Group. He's also the Workstream 3 lead for the IEEE I7100 - AI Sustainability Standards.