Max Van Kleek
Associate Professor
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Van Kleek is an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Oxford with 16 years of experience bridging cognitive science, AI, and systems to design practical tools that shape how people manage information, privacy, and decision-making. He leads research on usable AI, personal data ecosystems, and privacy-enhancing technologies, and teaches on the Software Engineering MSc while serving as a Governing Body Fellow at Kellogg College. His work spans academia and industry—co-founding an Oxford spin-out (Veer) and contributing to projects in eHealth, quantified-self, and decentralized web architectures—demonstrating a rare blend of rigorous field studies and applied system-building. Max is known for collaborating across social science, policy, and ML communities to turn deep research insights into deployable interfaces that help people live better computer-supported lives.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, A, Ph.D., Computer Science, A at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Japanese, French
Github Skills (46)
controller9
smartthings9
transparency9
censorship-resistance9
decentralized-applications9
google-play8
cordova-ios-plugin8
notification8
smartmeter8
scrape8
cordova-plugin8
decentralization8
google-play-store8
iot-application8
gundb7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
electronicmax/emaxhome
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
web-site
indx/indx-core
Oct 2012 - Aug 2014
Contributions:1170 commits in 1 year 10 months
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