Laura Herman is currently Curator of Digital Art at the Victoria & Albert Museum. She received her PhD from the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute, where her dissertation examined the impact of algorithmic curation on global visual cultures. Laura serves on the Corporate Advisory Board for the Royal Academy of Arts, and she is also an advisor to the Inclusive AI Lab at Utrecht University, an organization that she co-founded.

Laura was previously Head of AI Research at Adobe, leading a team of multi-disciplinary researchers covering Generative AI for Creative Cloud. Technologies that she has worked on have been acknowledged as Apple’s “App of the Day” and as a Webby People’s Choice Award winner.

Laura has held research positions at Intel, Harvard University, and Princeton University. She has previously been a “Researcher-in-Residence” at the studio of Olafur Eliasson and has contributed to the Serpentine Galleries’ Future Art Ecosystems report. Her curatorial and research work has been covered by venues such as the BBC, Forbes, Artnet, New Scientist, Newsweek, and the Wall Street Journal.