Nick Jennings is an internationally-recognised authority in the areas of AI, autonomous systems, cyber-security and agent-based computing. In particular, he is interested in how to endow individual autonomous agents with the ability to act and interact in flexible ways and with effectively engineering systems that contain both humans and software agents.

He is passionate about the real-world impact of research and his systems have been used to save lives in the aftermath of disasters, to win Olympic medals for Team GB, and to monitor the effects of climate change. Nick was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the Queen’s New Year Honours List in 2016 for his services to computer science and national security science.

He has received a number of prestigious awards for his research including the Computers and Thought Award, the ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award, and the Lovelace Medal. He previously held roles at Imperial College London and the University of Southampton and was the UK Government’s first Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security.