Max Van Kleek
Associate Professor
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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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.
16 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 (41)
controller10
traffic10
decentralized-applications10
gundb9
static-analysis9
iot-application9
ipfs9
decentralization9
dynamic-analysis9
appdata9
smartthings9
mitmproxy9
transparency9
smartmeter9
censorship-resistance9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sociam/xray
Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
X-ray project - information controller transparency tools.
Contributions:445 commits, 3 PRs, 355 pushes in 2 years 4 months
raycontrollertransparencyx-raymitmproxy
electronicmax/emaxhome
Jan 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 2 months
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