Linda is an Associate Professor - Strategic AI, at the Human Technology Institute, where she leads the Skills Lab. An experienced policymaker, researcher, and advocate, she is passionate about helping key decision-makers to address the most pressing challenges posed by emerging technologies. Linda has worked across government, academia, civil society, and non-profit organisations, and is passionate about ensuring that human values are embedded in AI systems across every sector.

Linda is concurrently undertaking a PhD, specialising in the ethical development, regulation and use of artificial intelligence (AI). Her own research focuses on the role of automated decision-making tools in competitive essential services markets and the development of effective regulatory solutions that prevent consumer harms, while simultaneously promoting innovation. Her research has gained local and international attention, and has been recognised in leading academic forums including Facct, AIES, and ESPANet.

She is a Research Fellow at the Gradient Institute, an independent non-profit research institute that builds ethics, accountability and transparency into AI systems, and is a co-author of their 2019 White Paper, ‘Practical Challenges for Ethical AI.’ She has served as an Executive Director of the Consumers' Federation of Australia, and a member of the UTS Research Committee. Linda’s work has featured in Australian media, including on the ABC, The Saturday Paper, SBS, The Financial Review, Foreground, and more.