Mark Graves

Mark Graves has fifteen years experience in developing software, informatics, and data science solutions for healthcare and the pharmaceutical industry. After earning his Ph.D. in computer science (artificial intelligence), he completed fellowships in genomics, moral psychology, and moral theology. He has held teaching or research positions at eight institutions of higher learning and published over eighty technical and scholarly works in computer science, biology, psychology, and theology, including three books. His current research focuses on understanding and modeling human morality, including ethical approaches to data science and machine learning, and philosophical and psychological foundations for constructing moral AI. In addition to his teaching and scholarship at USF, he is Research Fellow & Director at AI and Faith, a non-profit network focused on engaging world religions in the ethical challenges of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence/data science (Natural Language Processing)
• Moral, systematic & philosophical theology
• Moral psychology & well-being
• Religion, science & technology
• Theological anthropology & science

• Artificial Intelligence & data science ethics
• Computational approaches to moral psychology
• Moral theology & Artificial Intelligence

• Graduate Theological Union/Jesuit School of Theology, MA in Systematic & Philosophical Theology, 2005
• University of Michigan, PhD in Computer Science, 1993
• Georgia Institute of Technology, MS in Computer Science, 1988
• University of Miami, BS in Mathematics and in Computer Science, 1985

• Research Director, AI & Faith
• Research Associate Professor of Psychology, Fuller Seminary
• NLP Data Scientist, Director, Parexel AI Labs
• Clinical Data Scientist, Roam Analytics
• Visiting Research Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

• Mark Graves (2024). Modeling Morality and Spirituality in Artificial Chaplains. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans. 2(1). 
• Mark Graves (2022). Theological Foundations for Moral Artificial Intelligence. Journal of Moral Theology. 11(Special Issue 1): 182-218. Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. 
• Emanuele Ratti and Mark Graves (2021). Cultivating Moral Attention: A Virtue-oriented Approach to Responsible Data Science in Healthcare. Philosophy & Technology. 34(4): 1819-1846. 
• Mark Graves (2013). Insight to Heal: Co-Creating Beauty Amidst Human Suffering, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books.
• Mark Graves (2008). Mind, Brain, and the Elusive Soul: Human Systems of Cognitive Science and Religion, Ashgate/Routledge