Robert West is an Associate Professor of computer science at EPFL, where he heads the Data Science & AI Lab (dlab). His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and computational social science (CSS), with a focus on building AI that is safe for humanity. Bob received his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University (2016), his MSc from McGill University (2010), and his undergraduate degree from Technische Universität München (2007). He is an ELLIS Scholar, a Wikimedia Foundation Research Fellow, an Associate Editor and AI Column Head of the Communications of the ACM, an Associate Editor of ICWSM and EPJ Data Science, and a co-founder of the Wiki Workshop and the Applied Machine Learning Days. In 2024/2025, Bob spent a sabbatical as a Visiting Researcher with Microsoft Research Redmond, where he worked on agentic AI with the AI Frontiers team. His work has won several awards, including best/outstanding paper awards and honorable mentions at NAACL 2025, ACL 2024, CSCW 2021 & 2025, ICWSM 2019 & 2021 & 2024 & 2025, and WWW 2013 & 2016, a Google Faculty Research Award, a Facebook Research Award, and the ICWSM 2022 Adamic–Glance Distinguished Young Researcher Award.