September 2018-February 2019: literature review on uses of AI in medicine; privacy and the legal framework regulating the uses of Software as a medical device in the US and Europe; algorithmic fairness and accountability. I applied this new knowledge to map the actors involved in the development of AI (hospitals, private entities, governments) in the context of a case study on digital pills and uses of AI for monitoring medication intake.
September 2018: attended (with Prof. Sigrid Sterckx) conference 'AI and Law' at the University of Cambridge.
15-16 November 2018: attended (with Prof. Sigrid Sterckx) the launch event (workshop) of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Solidarity of the University of Vienna, with a strong focus on Big Data in Biomedicine.
December 2018: Conference presentation "Artificial Intelligence, Personalised Medicine and Intellectual Property Rights: Openness Revisited" at the University of Antwerp.
May 2019: job interview at Panteion University, Department of Political Science and History, Athens Greece. Job offer made and it was accepted. Job started on 1 September 2020.
June 2019: paper presentation "Bias in AI and digital phenotyping" conference, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
September - October 2019: Secondment with Prof Tsmardinos' AI startup in Heraklion, Crete. Professor Tsamardinos has developed highly innovative machine learning techniques to mine health data.
September 2019: attended the MYDATA 2019 conference in Helsinki, Finland.
October 2019 - February 2020: three research visits to allow dissemination and networking: Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels, University of Oxford, and Kings College London. I gave a talk at Kings College and the VUB. I taught a seminar to Postgraduate students at the University of Oxford.
October 2019: Lecture at Ghent University, Faculty of Medicine, by invited speaker Professor John Harris, "Automated algorithm-based decision-making: Ethical and legal aspects" (organised by Prof. Sterckx).
November 2019 - May 2020: 25 interviews with stakeholders. Interviews await analysis. Also dissemination to postgraduate students at University of Crete (5 seminars).
December 2019: publication ‘Remote digital monitoring of medication intake: Methodological, medical, ethical and legal reflection’ in the peer reviewed journal Acta Clinica Belgica (with co-authors Prof. Van Biesen, Decruyenaere, and Sterckx, and Dr Cockbain)
January 2020 : paper submitted to peer reviewed journal Ethics and Information Technology, 'Digital pills and ‘Artificial Intelligence’ image analysis: Ethical and legal reflections on competing interests in the market for remote monitoring of medication intake’ ' with co-authors Prof Sterckx, Van Biesen, Decruyenaere, and De Hert, and Dr Cockbain. (paper still under review – review delayed due to COVID-19)
March 2020: publication: Sideri, K. “Openness and the Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights.” Science and Public Policy.
April 2020: Publication: K. Sideri & G. Dutfield (eds.), Openness, Intellectual Property and Science Policy in the Age of Data Driven Medicine, Special Issue of Science and Public Policy
April 2020: publication: G. Dutfield and K.Sideri editorial introduction to the aforementioned special issue.
May 2020: research proposal submitted to the Greek fund for Higher Education (ELIDEK) with the title 'Smart Therapeutics'.
June 2020: acceptance of a panel proposal with colleagues from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for a conference at the University of Twente (to take place fall 2020 (title of the paper: Agonistic algorithms and Medical software; this paper will be based on the analysis of interview data (see above).
August 2020: paper submitted to Journal of European Public Policy. Title: Persuasion in a sensor as a choice of policy: Data driven nudges, structural bias and health policy.
August 2020: Paper submitted to Research Policy (with Andreas Panagopoulos Timo Minssen and Helen Wu (University of Copenhagen). Title 'Valorizing and Governing Healthcare Data in the AI Era.'
Spring 2021: In December 2019 we agreed to organize a workshop at Kings College London. This has been postponed due to COVID-19. If it takes place next year, the Marie Curie programme will be acknowledged.
