Abdullah Elbi

Abdullah Elbi is a doctoral researcher and Research Associate at KU Leuven Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), focusing on the regulation of AI, fundamental rights, data protection, including topics such as biometrics, digital identity, human oversight, and employee surveillance. He is a qualified lawyer(Ankara Bar) and certified data protection and AI specialist (CIPP/E & CIPM) with over 7 years of experience in the field. At CiTiP, Abdullah advises the EU and nationally funded research projects and provides guidance on data and AI governance. He is currently involved in the AIRA project, funded by imec, where he conducts legal research on agentic AI and human oversight requirements under the EU AI Act.

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imec - KU Leuven CiTiP

Belgium

The Centre for IT & IP Law is a research centre at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), with a staff of over 85 researchers specialising in legal and ethical aspects of IT innovation and intellectual property. Researchers working at the Centre for IT and IP Law focus on the fundamental rethinking of the current legal framework, necessitated by the rapid evolution of technology across fields such as government, media, health care, informatics, the digital economy, banking, transport, and culture. Their research is characterised by an intra- and extra-juridical interdisciplinary approach, constantly striving to foster cross-fertilisation among legal, technical, economic, ethical and socio-cultural perspectives. The Centre for IT & IP Law has a solid track record as a law and ethics partner of large international and interdisciplinary research projects. It is internationally renowned for its expertise in the areas of Artificial Intelligence & Autonomous systems, Data Protection & Privacy, eHealth & Pharma, Ethics & Law, Intellectual Property, Media & Telecommunications, and (Cyber)security. Based on its extensive research expertise, the Centre for IT & IP Law also provides educational programs and courses in Dutch and English at both the undergraduate and graduate levels on the KU Leuven campuses in Leuven and Brussels. In this way, the Centre for IT & IP Law is able to share its expertise with students, scholars and practitioners from around the globe and guide them through the complex world of Law & ICT. The teaching programs of the Centre for IT & IP Law are ranking high, both in student evaluations and in periodic interuniversity teaching assessments. Amongst the curricula of the Centre for IT & IP Law the Masters of Intellectual Property Rights and ICT Law is one of the most popular programs. The Centre for IT & IP Law is a member of the Leuven Center on Information and Communication Technology (https://www.kuleuven.be/LICT/) which combines the complimentary expertise and experiences of electronics engineers, computer scientists, sociologists and legal scholars in the ICT field at KU Leuven in a multi-disciplinary research center that aims to play a leading role in the worldwide ICT research scene, as well as of imec, high-tech research and innovation hub for nanoelectronics and digital technologies, which unites more than 850 researchers in ICT and ICT driven technologies located at 5 Flemish universities. The activities of the Centre for IT & IP Law are made possible through funding from multiple European and national research programs and, in particular, from imec and the Vancraesbeeck fund.