Matt Mahmoudi, Advisory Council

Matt Mahmoudi is an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge, and a Researcher/Advisor on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights at Amnesty International.

Matt’s research focus is on red-lining and resistance in digital cities and the “smart” reproduction of racial capitalism. At Amnesty, he has led research and advocacy work on AI-driven surveillance from the NYPD’s surveillance machine to Automated Apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territory. He is a Research Associate with the Centre of Governance and Human Rights, and an Affiliate Researcher with the DALOSS project at the University of Copenhagen.

Matt was the inaugural Jo Cox PhD Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he spent his doctoral research investigating cities as new frontiers for migrant violence and digital border control.

Matt is the author of Migrants in the Digital Periphery: New Urban Frontiers of Controls (University of California Press, 2025), and is a co-editor on Resisting Borders & Technologies of Violence (Haymarket, 2024) together with Mizue Aizeki and Coline Schupfer.