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Welcome to the Department of Computer Science

Created in 1968, we are one of oldest computer science departments in the World.

We are located in the Bedford Building.  Please follow this link for a campus map and this one for directions to Royal Holloway.

For general enquiries or for further information please contact us at:

Department of Computer Science
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham TW20 0EX

telephone: + 44 (0) 1784 443421
fax: + 44 (0) 1784 439786

 

Main contact points

(with links to e-mail addresses)

Head of Department: Carlos Matos

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Postgraduate research (PhD) admissionsphd-admissions

Directory

 

Name
Job title
Room
Tel no.

Sara Bernardini

Professor

 

+44 1784 276792

Yun Kuen Cheung

Lecturer

 

 

Dave Cohen

Professor

 

+44 1784 443692

Nicolò Colombo

Lecturer

 

 

Argyrios Deligkas

Lecturer

 

 

Eduard Eiben

Lecturer

 

 

Francisco Ferreira Ruiz

Lecturer

 

+44 1784 414686

Santiago Franco Aixela

Lecturer

 

 

Alex Gammerman

Professor

Co-Director of the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning

 

+44 1784 443434

Gregory Gutin

Professor

Member of Academia Europea

Fellow of AAIA

Digraphs, Algorithms, Access control

 

+44 1784 414229

Matthew Hague

Professor
Director of the Centre for Programming Languages and Systems

Formal Methods, Infinite-State Systems

 

+44 1784 443673

DongGyun Han

Lecturer

 

 

Adrian Johnstone

Professor

Generalised parsing, Formal semantics, Programming language design

 

+44 1784 443425

Yuri Kalnishkan

Reader

Machine learning, Prediction, Universal algorithms, Applications in Finance

 

+44 1784 414256

Giorgios Koutsoukos

Senior Lecturer
CEO of Code Groovers

Software engineering methodologies, IT project management

 

+44 1784 443424

Julien Lange

Lecturer

Programming languages, concurrency, and verification

 

 

Zhaohui Luo

Professor

 

+44 1784 443431

Zhiyuan Luo

Professor

 

+44 1784 443697

Carlos Matos

Professor, Head of Department

Software engineering, Software evolution and reengineering

 

+44 1784 414161

Dan O'Keeffe

Senior Lecturer

Distributed systems, Systems security

 

+44 1784 276034

Alberto Paccanaro

Professor
Director of the Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology

 

+44 1784 414239

Stephen Piddock

Lecturer

 

 

Nery Riquelme-Granada

Teaching Fellow

 

+44 1784 276821

Reuben Rowe

Lecturer

 

+44 1784 276827

Matteo Sammartino

Lecturer

Formal Methods, Learning-based Verification

 

+44 1784 443690

Elizabeth Scott

Professor

Generalised parsing, Formal semantics, Programming language design

 

+44 1784 443427

Farid Shahandeh

Lecturer

 

+44 1784 917112

Hugh Shanahan

Professor

Director of Student Experience (School and Department)

 

+44 1784 443433

Kostas Stathis

Professor

Director of Research

Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent Systems, Computational Logic

 

+44 1784 443698

Volodya Vovk

Professor
Co-Director of the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning

 

+44 1784 443426

Magnus Wahlström

Professor

Director of the Centre for Algorithms and Complexity

Parameterized Complexity, Constraint Satisfaction Problems

 

+44 1784 443429

Chris Watkins

Professor

 

+44 1784 443419

Li Zhang

Reader

 

 

 

 

Name
Job title
Room

Ilia Nouretdinov

Research Associate

McCrea 112

Paolo Toccaceli

Research Associate

McCrea 112

 

 

Alex Clark

Honorary Research Fellow

Helen Balinsky

Visiting Professor

David Cooper

Visiting Professor

Mike Fellows

Visiting Professor

Paul Klint

Visiting Professor

Leonid Levin

Visiting Professor

Pitt Lim

Visiting Professor

Fionn Murtagh

Visiting Professor

Ursula Martin

Honorary Fellow

Dusko Pavlovic

Visiting Professor

Martin Sadler

Honorary Fellow

Glenn Shafer

Visiting Professor

Steve Shirley 

Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

Doron Swade

Honorary Fellow

Mark van den Brand

Visiting Professor

Vladimir Vapnik

Emeritus Professor

Martin Wirsing

Doctor of Science, Honoris Causa

 

 

Name
Company

Steven Busuttil

Jump Trading

Tim Corrigan

Pentatonix

Ross Duer

Blackrock

Angelo Haritsis

Eisler Capital

Vincent Powel

PWC

Francesco Vivarelli

Accenture

Peter Chittum

Salesforce

Chris Roche

Aridhia

Daljit Rehal

HM Revenue & Customs

Alison Vincent

Valiha Consultancy

Simon Greener

Gartner

John Davies

BT

Garry Barnett

Huler

David Randell

Shell

Rakesh Paleja

Shell

Andy Seferta

Fujitsu

 

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