Meet the Staff

Editor in Chief

Victoria Ashworth leads the Automatica Press newsroom and is responsible for its editorial standards. She approaches every story as an editor first: test the central claim, follow the evidence, make uncertainty visible and ensure the work earns a reader’s time. Her remit spans news, analysis and opinion, with accuracy taking precedence over speed or spectacle.

Infrastructure Correspondent

Adrian Cole follows the infrastructure behind the industry: chips, data centers, power and the economics of compute. His coverage asks what systems cost to build and operate, where the bottlenecks sit and which performance claims survive a like-for-like comparison.

Policy Correspondent

Daniel Rowe covers the rules and institutions shaping emerging technology. His focus is on the text behind the announcement: consultations, legislation, enforcement decisions and international agreements. He separates what a policy promises from what it actually requires.

Research Correspondent

Elena Voss covers model development and the ideas behind new research. Her beat follows the distance between a promising paper and a result that holds up outside the lab. She favors clear explanations, original sources and questions that a benchmark score alone cannot answer.

CES Lead & Privacy Correspondent

James Malkin has spent more than 25 years in the technology industry, including director-level roles at billion-dollar companies. He is passionate about emerging technologies, with a particular interest in artificial intelligence. At Automatica, he covers technology, policy and digital rights.

Computing Correspondent

Julian Park covers the relationship between computing systems and model performance. His interests include inference efficiency, open technical work and the details hidden in performance charts. He makes numbers legible without treating them as the whole story.

Research & Evaluation Correspondent

Mira Sethi focuses on how models are measured, compared and understood. Her coverage examines evaluation design, reproducibility and the assumptions behind claims of progress. She looks for the caveat that changes the headline.

Security Correspondent

Nadia Vale covers security failures, system safeguards and the difficult business of establishing trust. Her beat connects technical disclosures with their consequences for users and institutions. She favors specific threat models over sweeping claims that a system is safe or unsafe.

Science & Applications Correspondent

Owen Mercer follows the practical uses of machine learning in science and everyday systems. His coverage centers on usefulness: who benefits, what has been demonstrated and what remains a prototype. He writes patient explanations of technically demanding subjects.