People
Meet the academic, teaching, and professional services staff within the School of Computer Science.
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Dr Ozgur Akgun
Director of Impact
Senior Lecturer
Constraint Programming, Data Linkage, Applications of Machine Learning
Dr Oggie Arandelovic
Reader
Computer vision; machine learning; pattern recognition; data mining; big data analysis; health informatics; statistics; clinical trial design and analysis; information retrieval; mathematical modelling; image processing
Dr Abd Alsattar Ardati
Lecturer
Human-computer interaction, Software Engineering, Caring Practices in Software Development, Design Research, Socio-Technical Solutions, Participatory Design (PD) Methods & Tools, Distributed PD, Cross-cultural PD, Community-Centric Design, Digital Communities, Online Ethnography, Marginalised Groups, Digital Inclusion, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Collaborative Writing, Open Knowledge Gaps, and platforms like Wikipedia.
Dr Dharini Balasubramaniam
Senior Lecturer
Software architecture, uncertainty in software systems, software ethics, digital inclusion, digital literacy, Computer Science education
Prof Saleem Bhatti
Professor
Internet architecture (specifically ILNP); Networked and computer communication systems, architectures, protocols and applications; Mobile and wireless systems; Energy in computer systems; Mobile health (mHealth); Security and privacy in networked systems; Communications systems for development; Performance analysis; Testbeds and empirical/data-driven systems research; Network control plane; Network management and resource management.
Prof Juliana Bowles
Professor
Formal methods and verification; model checking; constraint solvers; temporal logics (stochastic, distributed, etc); concurrency; dependability; NLP in healthcare; modelling in healthcare; health informatics; evidence-based clinical decision support systems; global health
Dr Edwin Brady
Reader
Types; programming languages; DSLs; verification; compilers; theorem proving; functional programming; program generation; dependent types
Dr Christopher Brown
Reader
Reader (Education and Research Focused)
Programming languages; refactoring; semantics; programming transformation; energy analysis; parallel programming; heterogeneous computing
Prof Richard Connor
Professor of Computer Science
similarity and metric search, high-dimensional geometry, Hilbert spaces, dimensionality reduction
Dr Nguyen Dang
Lecturer
combinatorial optimisation, algorithms, machine learning, deep reinforcement learning, automated algorithm configuration, constraint modelling, evolutionary algorithms.
Prof Alan Dearle
Professor
Metric search; metric indexing; data linkage; genealogical population reconstruction; synthetic population generation; operating systems; unikernel operating systems
Prof Simon Dobson
Deputy Head of School
Professor
complex systems; network science; simulation; computational science; sensor networks; data analytics; data science
Dr Joan Espasa Arxer
Lecturer
Automated Planning, Classical Planning, Numeric Planning, Scheduling, Boolean Satisfiability, Satisfiability Modulo Theories, SAT, SMT, Planning as SAT, Constraint Programming, CP, Automated reformulation
Prof Ian Gent
Professor
Constraint satisfaction, Puzzle Games, Patience/Solitaire Solving, Recreational AI
Dr David Harris-Birtill
Senior Lecturer
Medical technology; image analysis; signal processing; ambient sensing; medical imaging; remote pulse oximetry; photoacoustics; photothermal therapy; machine learning.
Dr Tristan Henderson
Senior Lecturer
Privacy, data ethics, data protection, law and technology, human-data interaction (HDI), online social networks, reproducible and responsible research
Dr Ruth Hoffmann
Lecturer
combinatorics, computational mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, combinatorial search, graphs, groups, permutations, theoretical computer science
Dr Jason Jacques
Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction
HCI, Crowdsourcing, Online Labour Markets, Digital Communities, Gig Economy, Sustainability
Prof Christopher Jefferson
Professor
Game AI, Constraint Programming, Computational Group Theory, Search
Prof Graham Kirby
Professor
Linkage of historical records; population reconstruction; synthetic population data generation
Dr Phong Le
Reader in Machine Learning
natural language processing, machine learning, automated algorithm configuration
Dr Peter Macgregor
Lecturer
Data Science, Machine Learning, Clustering, Graph Algorithms, Similarity Search, Theoretical Computer Science
Dr Areti Manataki
Lecturer
health informatics, artificial intelligence, health data science, process mining and modelling, data science education, data visualisation, intelligent systems
Prof Ian Miguel
Head of School
Professor
Artificial Intelligence, Constraint Programming, Constraint Modelling, Propositional Satisfiability, SAT, Combinatorial Optimisation.
Prof Susmit Sarkar
Director of Research
Professor
Shared memory concurrency; parallelism; programming languages; verification; compilers; static analysis; hardware architecture design; memory consistency models
Dr Tom Spink
Lecturer
Dynamic Binary Translation, Hardware Virtualisation, Operating Systems, Runtimes, Compilers
Dr Kasim Terzić
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer (Education and Research Focused)
Computer vision; scene understanding; machine learning; cognitive robotics, artificial intelligence (AI); ecology and conservation
Dr Alice Toniolo
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer (Education and Research Focused)
Artificial intelligence; argumentation; reasoning; dialogue; deliberation; multi-agent systems; human-agent interaction; provenance; planning; norms.
Prof Blesson Varghese
Professor
Professor (Education and Research Focused)
Distributed systems, Cloud/Edge computing, Distributed intelligence, Collaborative Machine Learning, Edge AI/ML
Mr Steven Watt
Professor in Practice in Computer Science
Cyber resilience; Cyber security; IoT and Operational technology security, IT Governance; Risk Management; Organisational Resilience; Cloud resilience and security.
Prof Juan Ye
Professor
Professor (Education and Research Focused)
human activity recognition, sensor data analysis, applied machine learning, domain adaptation, continual learning
Mr Kenneth Boyd
Honorary Lecturer
user-centred design, UI, UX, tangible interfaces, museums and visitor centres, design thinking, HCI
Dr Rosa Filgueira
Honorary Research Fellow
Data Streaming Libraries, Text Mining Frameworks, High Performance Computing, Distributed Systems, Big Data, Applied AI, Parallel Computing, Workflows Systems, Reproducible Frameworks
