Dr Sun Park is Ad Astra Fellow and Assistant Professor in AI and Digital Cultural Heritage of the School of Information and Communication Studies. She specialises in international cultural policy, UNESCO heritage policy, AI in cultural policy, Human-AI Interaction and AI practices as intangible cultural heritage. She did a PhD in Sociology and MA in International Cultural Policy and Management from the University of Warwick. Her PhD thesis explores how UNESCO can register AI-generated works as UNESCO heritage, challenging the Turing Test of Alan Turing. As an alternative to the Turing Test, she designed the ‘Durkheim Process’ as the criteria for evaluating AI-generated works as UNESCO heritage.

Before joining UCD, Sun was Lecturer in Creative and Cultural Industries of the University of Manchester and Module Convenor of the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies of the University of Warwick in the UK. She has worked at UNESCO, the Korean National Commission for UNESCO and Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding under the auspices of UNESCO. In the field of UNESCO, she specialised in the interpretation of World Heritage, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Documentary Heritage, global citizenship and UNESCO’s policy-making systems. She is a member of Cultural Policy Observatory Ireland and UCD Humanities Institute.