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Born Nicholas Robert Jennings 15 December 1966 (age 57) London, England ( 1966-12-15 ) Institutions University of SouthamptonGovernment of the United Kingdom Alma mater University of ExeterQueen Mary University of London Thesis Joint Intentions as a Model of Multi-Agent Cooperation (1992) Doctoral students Peyman FaratinGopal RamchurnRajdeep DashBing Shi Known for Agent-based modellingChief scientific advisor to UK Government. Residence Bishop's Waltham, United Kingdom Books Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control: A Design Methodology, Cooperation in Industrial Multi-Agent Systems People also search for Nigel Shadbolt, Trung Dong Huynh, Abe Mamdani | ||
The interview nick jennings
Nicholas Robert Jennings, CB, FREng, FIEEE, FIET, FBCS, CEng, CITP is the Vice-Provost for Research at Imperial College, where he also holds a Chair in Artificial Intelligence. He was previously the Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton and Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government on National Security. He is an internationally recognised authority in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, agent-based computing and cybersecurity. He has been involved in founding and advising a number of start ups including Aerogility , Contact Engine , Crossword Cyber Security , Mentat and Reliance Cyber Science .
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- The interview nick jennings
- Unlocking the potential of human problem solving in data rich environments nick jennings
- Education
- Research
- Career
- Fellowships
- Personal life
- Awards
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Unlocking the potential of human problem solving in data rich environments nick jennings
Education
Nick was born in London. He grew up in Portland, Dorset, attended Weymouth Grammar School and studied for an undergraduate degree in computer science at the University of Exeter. His PhD was from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London.
Research
His research is in the broad area of artificial intelligence and covers both the science and the engineering of intelligent systems. Specifically, he has undertaken fundamental research on automated bargaining, mechanism design, trust and reputation, coalition formation, human-agent collectives and crowd sourcing. He has also pioneered the application of multi-agent technology; developing some of the first real-world systems—in domains such as business process management, smart energy systems, sensor networks, disaster response, telecommunications, citizen science and eDefence—and generally advocating the area of agent-oriented software engineering. His most recent project, ORCHID, developed the science of Human-Agent Collectives (HACs) in which humans and software agents collaborate in a seamless manner.
In undertaking this research, he has attracted grant income of over £25M (mainly from EPSRC), published more than 600 articles (with some 350 co-authors) and graduated more than 40 PhD students (including two winners and one runner-up of the BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation Award. He is recognised as highly cited by ISI Web of Science in both the Engineering and the Computer Science categories, has over 70,000 citations in Google Scholar, and has an h-index of 112.
He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and a founding director of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. He has also led teams that have won competitions in the areas of: the Iterated Prisoners' Dilemma, RoboCup (2007), Agent Trust and Reputation (the ART competitions in 2006 and 2007), the Lemonade Stand Game (2009 and 2010), competing marketplaces (2007), and technology-mediated social mobilisation and rapid information gathering (the US Department of State's Tag Challenge in 2012).
Career
From 1988 he was at Queen Mary, University of London, where he was a PhD student, research fellow, lecturer, reader and professor. He was appointed to a chair at the age of 31.
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 (Research) (2001-2008), the Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise) for the Faculty of Engineering, Science and Maths (2008-2010), the Head of the Agents, Interaction and Complexity group (2011-2015) and the Head of Department (2015-2016). He was appointed the Regius Professor of Computer Science in 2014.
From 2010 to 2015, he was the UK Government's Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security.
He 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.
In 2016, he moved to Imperial College to be the Vice-Provost (Research), as well as a Professor of Artificial Intelligence.
Fellowships
Personal life
He is married to Jo and they have two children. He is a keen sportsman: playing cricket for Bishops Waltham Cricket Club, previously managing a youth football team at Waltham Wolves, and being an avid West Ham United Football Club fan.