Towards Open Benchmarks for Human Flourishing with AI

1, 2026·
Pattie Maes
,
Pat Pataranutaporn
,
Valdemar Danry
,
Auren Liu
,
Constanze Albrecht
,
Chayapatr Archiwaranguprok
,
Sheer Karny
,
Rosalind Picard
,
Karrie Karahalios
,
Hua Shen
,
Advait Sarkar
,
Qianou Christina Ma
,
Martin Gjoreski
,
Amml Hussein
,
Marilyn Zhang
,
Petr Slovak
,
Rafal Kocielnik
,
Yaoli Mao
Vidminas Vizgirda
Vidminas Vizgirda
,
Max Lu
,
Paul Liang
,
Ryan McGranaghan
,
Yi-Chieh (EJ) Lee
,
Otilia Ciotau
,
Renwen Zhang
,
Isobel Voysey
,
Jina Suh
,
Pete Furlong
,
Pat Yongpradit
,
Mel Sellick
,
Sunny Liu
,
Achal Chitkara
,
Connor Mulvaney
,
Erika Anderson
,
Nathanael Fast
,
Ivy Teng Lei
,
Rachel Xu
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Vidminas Vizgirda
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Hi 👋😊! I’m Vidminas (most people call me Vid), a postdoc on the CHAILD project splitting time between the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and the Institute of Education, University College London.

I am interested in technology and education, and more specifically researching and developing technologies that empower people. The current CHAILD project focus is about defining and designing for agency in children and young people’s use of AI tools.

I completed my PhD at the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation at the University of Edinburgh in March 2026, supervised by Professor Fiona McNeill and Professor Judy Robertson. The project was about better understanding and designing tools to help teachers search for educational resources.

I am always keen to chat about teaching and learning, human-computer interaction, participatory research, and designing applications for good, feel free to get in touch!