Mikolaj Firlej is the Director of the Law and Technology Hub and a Lecturer in AI and Regulation at the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI and the School of Law, University of Surrey. He is also a Research Affiliate at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.

Mikolaj’s research focuses on providing a deeper understanding about the role of human factors in the increasingly algorithmic decision making across various sectors. Specifically, he focuses on the operationalisation of the emerging legal principle of meaningful human control over the use of autonomous systems, typology of standards applicable to AI systems, and legal issues of privacy-preserving technologies.