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Artificial Intelligence in the Caribbean A peer-reviewed journal of research, policy and practice across the Caribbean and small states.

Governance

Editorial Board

AIC is led by an independent editorial board drawn from research institutions, universities and policy organizations across the Caribbean and beyond. The Caribbean AI Association funds the journal and appoints nobody to it.

Building the board for the inaugural edition: AIC is recruiting section editors, preprint moderators, a student section editor and reviewers ahead of the 14 September 2026 deadline. We particularly welcome scholars and practitioners based in the Caribbean, diaspora researchers, and specialists across machine learning, development economics, climate science, governance, health and data systems. Apply now →
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Leadership

Editor-in-Chief

Editor-in-Chief

Adrian Dunkley

Founding Editor-in-Chief, AIC · Physicist and AI researcher · 15+ years in artificial intelligence

Adrian Dunkley is a physicist and artificial intelligence researcher who has spent more than fifteen years operating in the field, across research, engineering and strategy. He founded this journal to give Caribbean AI research a venue that treats the region as the subject of the work rather than a case study appended to it, and he chairs editorial decisions across all three tracks: the peer-reviewed journal, the preprint server and the student researcher section.

He came to machine learning through physics, and the training shows in what he asks of a paper. A physicist is taught to distrust a result that arrives without an error bar, to ask what the model would predict if it were wrong, and to treat a method that works only on the data it was tuned on as a method that does not work. Those habits are the standard this journal applies, and they are the reason its reporting requirements ask for uncertainty, seeds, variance and subgroup performance rather than a single headline number.

His work spans the full distance from the paper to the deployment. He founded and leads StarApple AI, through which he has built and shipped production machine learning systems for organisations across the Caribbean in finance, insurance, health, energy, government and the wider service economy — work that involves data that is small, uneven, interrupted by a hurricane season, and nothing like the benchmark corpora most published methods are validated on. That experience is the origin of this journal’s most persistent editorial question: has this been shown to work here, or only argued that it ought to?

Alongside the technical work he has advised boards, regulators, ministries and executive teams on AI strategy, data governance and the risk frameworks that sit underneath both. He is a founding figure in the Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Association, which publishes and funds this journal, and in the Caribbean AI Risk Management Council, which develops AI governance and risk standards adapted to small-state regulatory capacity. He writes and speaks regularly on artificial intelligence for Caribbean and international audiences, and teaches and mentors across the region, from executive programmes to secondary school students — the constituency the student researcher section was built for.

His research interests sit at the intersection of machine learning methodology and the conditions that make it fail outside the laboratory: transfer and external validity in small populations, inference under scarce and irregular data, benchmark and dataset construction for under-represented regions, the governance of deployed systems, and the statistical-disclosure problem that makes standard anonymisation practice unsafe in a country of a hundred thousand people.

Editorial independence. The Editor-in-Chief holds final responsibility for scope, editorial standards and every publication decision, and no funder, sponsor or Association officer may direct a decision on a manuscript. Where he is an author on a submission, the manuscript is handled entirely by an independent section editor, he is excluded from the file, and he sees neither the reviewers’ identities nor their reports. This is set out in the competing interests policy and the section head terms of reference, and it applies to him more strictly than to anyone else on the board.
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Managing Editor

Managing Editor

Position Open

The managing editor runs day-to-day editorial operations, reviewer coordination and production across all three tracks. Appointment in progress ahead of the inaugural edition.

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Section Editors

Subject Area Editors

The fifteen subject areas in the classification scheme are grouped into six editorial sections. Each section editor selects reviewers and holds quality assurance within their codes.

Section Editor

Position Open

Climate, Energy and Environment
cai.CLM cai.NRG cai.AGR

Seeking: climate modelling, meteorology, remote sensing, disaster risk, energy systems, agricultural science

Section Editor

Position Open

Economy and Enterprise
cai.FIN cai.SME cai.TUR

Seeking: financial economics, actuarial and insurance modelling, development finance, econometrics, tourism economics

Section Editor

Position Open

Governance, Security and Society
cai.GOV cai.SEC cai.SOC cai.MIG

Seeking: public administration, political science, law and regulation, criminology, AI ethics, migration studies

Section Editor

Position Open

Health and Life Sciences
cai.MED

Seeking: clinical research, epidemiology, medical imaging, health informatics, genomics, natural products chemistry

Section Editor

Position Open

Language, Culture and Education
cai.CUL cai.EDU

Seeking: computational linguistics, creole language research, digital humanities, learning analytics, education policy

Section Editor

Position Open

Infrastructure, Methods and Data
cai.INF cai.MTH

Seeking: systems and computing infrastructure, data governance, benchmark design, statistics, reproducibility research

Preprint Server

Moderation Panel

Moderators screen AIC Preprints for scope, scholarly form, rights and disclosure. They do not peer review, and they do not judge whether a finding is correct. Screening turnaround is under one working day, so the panel is larger than the volume requires.

Chair

Position Open

Preprint Moderation Panel

Holds appeals, sets moderation practice, reports to the Editor-in-Chief. Seeking prior experience with a preprint server or repository

Moderator

Positions Open

Quantitative and physical sciences
cai.CLM cai.NRG cai.AGR cai.MED

Seeking: active researchers able to judge scope and form quickly across environmental and life science submissions

Moderator

Positions Open

Social, economic and policy sciences
cai.FIN cai.GOV cai.SME cai.SOC

Seeking: economists, policy researchers and social scientists comfortable with applied machine learning

Moderator

Positions Open

Computing, methods and data
cai.INF cai.MTH cai.CUL cai.EDU

Seeking: machine learning engineers and researchers, including practitioners outside academia

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Moderate Preprints

Roughly two hours a week. You screen for admissibility, not merit, and you are never asked to review.

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Student Researchers

Student Section Editorial Team

The Student Researcher Section publishes work by authors aged 13 and over. Its reviewers commit to written, constructive feedback on every submission, including the ones that are turned down, which the main journal does not require.

Student Section Editor

Position Open

Leads the student track end to end

Seeking: a researcher or educator with experience supervising young people, and the patience to explain a rejection properly

Mentor Reviewers

Positions Open

Two reviewers per student submission

Seeking: working researchers and practitioners across every subject area, willing to write feedback a sixteen-year-old can act on

Student Readers

Positions Open

Readability check on every student paper

Seeking: undergraduate and postgraduate students who will say plainly when a paper cannot be followed

Safeguarding Lead

Position Open

Consent, data protection and welfare for authors under 18

Seeking: experience in child protection, education administration or research ethics involving minors

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Mentor a Young Researcher

One or two papers per edition. For many of these students you will be the first professional researcher to read their work.

Volunteer

Advisory Council

International Advisory Board

The advisory board guides the journal's direction, scope and standards. It holds no decision rights over individual manuscripts. Members are drawn from international AI research, development policy and Caribbean studies.

Advisory Board Member

Position Open

AI for development and SIDS policy

Multilateral development institution or international AI research background preferred

Advisory Board Member

Position Open

Caribbean economics

Regional development bank, Caribbean central bank or academic economics background preferred

Advisory Board Member

Position Open

AI ethics and governance

AI policy, digital rights, governance frameworks or responsible AI research background preferred

Advisory Board Member

Position Open

Open science and scholarly infrastructure

Repository, preprint server, indexing or persistent identifier experience preferred

On funding and independence. AIC is published and funded by the Caribbean Artificial Intelligence Association, which is why there are no fees in any track. The Association appoints no editors, sees no manuscript before publication, and holds no right of review over any decision. Editorial authority rests with the Editor-in-Chief and the board. Where a submission involves the Association or its officers, it is handled by a section editor with no connection to it and the fact is disclosed on publication.

Reviewers

Join Our Reviewer Pool

AIC maintains a pool of expert reviewers across machine learning, economics, climate science, health, governance and data systems. Reviewers are acknowledged in each edition, receive a verified record of their reviews, and join the regional research community the journal exists to build. We need reviewers in place before the 14 September 2026 deadline.