Cambridge Centre for Professor John Rust
Associate Fellow
Contact information
07876684568
LCFI
16 Mill Lane
Cambridge
CB2 1SB
United Kingdom
Biography
Graduated from London University in psychology, statistics and computer science in 1970, received PhD (Genetic factors in Psychophysiology) in 1974 and MA in Philosophy in 1976. Became Lecturer and Reader in Psychometrics at London until appointment as Professor of Psychometrics at City University, London, in 2002. Founding editor of the journal Philosophical Psychology in 1985. Textbook ‘Modern Psychometrics’ is now in its 4th edition. From the 1990s he worked with the Psychological Corporation to develop tests of intelligence, including the Wechsler and British Ability .
Moved to the University of Cambridge in 2005 and was Director of its Psychometrics Centre until 2019. From 2008 until 2014 the centre published widely on the application of methodology to the analysis of online digital footprints, both reporting benefits and warning of risks. Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence since 2019
Research interests
The interface between machine learning (AI) and psychometrics, particularly in regard to how machines learn human psychology and how this can be practically applied in HR, forensics, persuasion and big data environments more generally.The development of an emerging new branch of psychology fit for the digital age, one in which researchers can interrogate interactions not only between humans but between humans and bots, algorithms or other agents that exhibit unique but often covert moral and social characteristics of their own.
Keywords
Artificial intelligence, Big data, Data science
Publications
Rust, J., Kosinski, M., and Stillwell, D. (2020) Modern Psychometrics: The Science of Psychological Assessment (4th Edition), Routledge, London.