Dr Matt Mahmoudi
Fellow @ Pembroke College, Cambridge
About
I am a lecturer, researcher, and organizer, focusing on critical race and digital studies. For the last 4.5 years, I have been leading the ‘Ban the Scan’ campaign, Amnesty International’s research and advocacy efforts on banning facial recognition technologies and exposing their uses against racialized communities, from New York City to the occupied Palestinian territories. My roster of work includes documenting and exposing repressive deployments of AI in law enforcement and the military, and supporting the development of Amnesty International's generative AI research and policy. I hold a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where I studied technological marginalisation of refugees and migrants in "smart" cities, as the inaugural Jo Cox PhD Scholar. There, I continue to teach ‘Control and Resistance in Digital Societies’, as an Affiliated Lecturer in Sociology My work appears in The Sociological Review, International Political Sociology, Digital Witness (Oxford Uni. Press, 2020), Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (Haymarket, 2024), and in my forthcoming book, Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Control (Uni. Of California Press, February 2025).
United Kingdom
London
Civic & Social Organization
Politics, Business, International Relations, Entrepreneurship, Public Speaking, Marketing Strategy, Management, Cultural Analysis, Rhetoric, International Negotiations, Team Building, Sales Management, Web Design, Debate, English, Social Networking, Model United Nations, Leadership, Team Leadership, Market Research
Experience
Fellow
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities
University of Cambridge
With a research focus on red-lining and resistance in digital cities, and the “smart”-urban reproduction of racial capitalism. Interested in supervising projects related to the broader field of critical race and digital studies, including: critical race theory, urban studies, science and technology studies, and migration studies, in particular where these grapple with critical questions related to AI, surveillance, and racialization.
Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Sociology
University of Cambridge
Lecturing ‘Control & Resistance in Digital Societies’ track of SOC3
Researcher/Adviser on Artificial Intelligence & Human Rights
Amnesty International
London, England Metropolitan Area
Working with Amnesty Tech's AI & Big Data team on developing research, policy and advocacy on artificial intelligence and human rights, with a particular focus on facial recognition technologies.
Head of the Silicon Valley Initiative and Deputy Director (interim), Amnesty Tech
Amnesty International
Board Trustee
Refugee Info Bus
Co-Founder, Host and Producer
Declarations: The Human Rights Podcast
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Declarations is the Cambridge human rights podcast coming to you each week from the Centre of Governance and Human Rights. Tune in as we explore contemporary debates about politics and human rights with guests from the University of Cambridge and around the world. Available now on iTunes and SoundCloud.
Program Lead on The Whistle project (PI: Dr Ella McPherson)
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Whistle is a digital human rights reporting project that aims to help civilian witnesses connect with human rights NGOs. I contribute to our research surrounding civilian witness reporting and verification through extensive exploration of actors and practices in the digital human rights field, and make connections with human rights oriented NGOs and academic projects. I contribute actively to research and mapping of actors and organizations, liaising with partner NGOs, co-ordinating volunteers, and developing UI/UX visualizations. For more info, visit the website: http://www.thewhistle.org
Coordinator at Amnesty International's Digital Verification Corps in Cambridge
Centre of Governance and Human Rights
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Amnesty International's global network of digital volunteers known as the Digital Verification Corps (DVC). With the help of digital verification tools and training from Amnesty, the DVCs work with university students to advance human rights by fact- checking and verifying footage from sites of atrocity crime investigations.
Independent Contractor
Open Society Foundations
Visiting Scholar
Hertie School
Visiting Scholar
Institute for the Study of Human Rights | Columbia University
New York, New York
Housed at the ISHR, Columbia University, as Visiting Scholar researching technological marginalisation amongst refugees and asylum seekers. Currently conducting fieldwork amongst resilient diaspora communities and subversive tech-orgs in NYC.
Education
University of Cambridge
Development Studies
Race & Mobility in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers for Migration Control
University of Cambridge
Development Studies
Queen Mary University of London
Politics with Business Management
Studying Honours Politics with Business Management, along with founding Politics Made Public and Favourful, holding presidency at the QMULBC and serving as acting HSS Faculty Rep.
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