Nick Jennings (computer scientist)

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Nick Jennings
CB FRS FREng FCGI FIET FBCS MAE CEng CITP
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Jennings in July 2022
Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University
Assumed office
October 2021
Salary£350,723 (2022–23) [1]
Known for
SpouseJoanne Jennings
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Loughborough University
Thesis Joint Intentions as a Model of Multi-Agent Cooperation  (1992)
Doctoral advisor Abe Mamdani
Doctoral students
Website www.lboro.ac.uk/services/vco/smt/vc-prof-jennings/

Nicholas Robert Jennings CB FRS FREng FCGI FIET FBCS MAE CEng CITP is a British computer scientist and the current Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University. [3] He was previously the Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise at Imperial College London, the UK's first Regius Professor of Computer Science, and the inaugural Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on National Security. [4] His research covers the areas of AI, autonomous systems, agent-based computing and cybersecurity.

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He has been involved in a number of startups including Aerogility, [5] Contact Engine, [6] Crossword Cyber Security, [7] Darktrace, [8] and Reliance Cyber Science. [9] He is currently the chair of the judges for the Manchester Prize for AI, [10] and a judge of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. [11]

Education and early life

Jennings was born in London. [12] He grew up on the Isle of Portland in Dorset and attended Weymouth Grammar School. He studied for an undergraduate degree in computer science at the University of Exeter and his PhD was from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London. [13]

Research and career

His research focus is on developing AI systems for large-scale, open and dynamic environments. In particular, on endowing individual autonomous agents with the ability to act and interact in flexible ways, and with building systems that contain both humans and software agents that work together in partnership.

His systems have been used to save lives in the aftermath of disasters, to win Olympic medals for Team GB, and to monitor the impact of climate change on glaciers. [14]

In undertaking this research, he has attracted grant income of £33M, published more than 700 articles (with over 480 co-authors [15] ) and graduated over 50 PhD students (including two winners and one runner-up of the British Computer Society (BCS)/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award. [16] ) He has over 95,000 citations in Google Scholar [17] and an h-index of 134. [18]

From 1988 he was at Queen Mary, University of London, where he was a PhD student, lecturer, reader and professor.

In 1999, he moved to the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton where he was the Deputy Head of Department, the Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) for the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Maths, the Head of the Agents, Interaction and Complexity group and the Head of Department. He was appointed the UK's first Regius Professor of Computer Science in 2014.

From 2010 to 2015, he was the UK Government's first Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security. [19]

In 2016, he moved to Imperial College to be the Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise), [20] as well as a Professor of Artificial Intelligence.

In 2021, he was appointed as the 9th Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University. [21]

Awards

Jennings was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to computer science and national security science. [22]

Fellowships

Personal life

Jennings is married to Jo and they have two children.[ citation needed ]

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