Staff in the Department of Computing

Dr Freida Abtan

Freida is an artist and composer, primarily working with samples of both musical and non-musical objects.

Dr Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie

Mohammed has research interests in face detection and facial expression recognition, cognitive science and AI.

Dr Edward Anstead

Edward is interested in human computer interaction, focussing on collaborative group practices with distributed devices.

Dr Golnaz Badkobeh

Golnaz has research interests in string algorithms and combinatorics on words.

Prof Mark Bishop

Mark works in the field of cognitive computing, researching the theory and applications of computational intelligence.

Dr Tim Blackwell

Tim researches swarm intelligence, social learning, sensor networks, and live algorithms.

Prof Michael Casey

Michael specialises in audio signal processing and machine learning/pattern recognition.

Dr Maggie Cooper

Prof Tim Crawford

Tim has research interests in computational approaches to musicology and music history from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Prof Mark d'Inverno

Mark researches the application of intelligent agents in biology, music, art and design.

Federico Fasce

Frederico is a games designer interested in self-care and relationships in game spaces as well as furthering the medium as a form of expression.

Dr Rebecca Fiebrink

Rebecca’s research combines human-computer interaction and signal processing to allow people to apply machine learning.

Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie

Frederic works on creativity and AI systems, including robots which can perform artistic skills similar to humans.

Dr Jamie Forth

Jamie is a musician, artist/coder, and interdisciplinary researcher, focussing on music networks and inclusivity.

Saskia Freeke

Saskia is an artist and creative coder whose art work focusses on structure, geometry and playfulness.

Andy Freeman

Andy is a lecturer specialising in digital journalism, data visualisation and digital interactions.

Dr Betty Fyn-Sydney

Betty is a mathematician with interests in group theory, representation theory, and coding theory.

Max Garagnani

Max’s research lies at the intersection of computational and cognitive neuroscience.

Dr Aaron Gerow

Aaron is interested in computational social science, network science, text mining, and statistical semantics.

Michael Ghebru

Michael is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and his interest are in learning and teaching.

Dr Marco Gillies

Marco’s research centres on how we can create technologies that work with embodied, tacit human knowledge.

Dr Jeremy Gow

Jeremy’s research asks how can computers understand play and be involved in the design of video games.

Prof Mick Grierson

Mick finds new approaches to the creation of sounds, images and video through signal processing and machine learning.

Nicolas Hine

Nick’s vocation is to seek to optimise the fit between technology and people.

Matthew Hoban

Matthew is interested in the difference between quantum and non-quantum information and firmly believes that the former is the future of computing.

Dr Elaheh HomayounVala

Ela's research is multi-disciplinary and is focused on User Modelling and Personalisation.

Lane Palmer Hughston

Lane is a Professor of Mathematics who's interests include general relativity, cosmology and twistor theory, among many others.

Janis Jefferies

Janis Jefferies is Emeritus Professor of Visual Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Dr Simon Katan

Simon is a digital artist with a background in music and an interest with games and play.

Dr Rodger Kibble

Rodger is interested with natural language semantics, intelligent agent theories, and dialogue modelling.

Prof William Latham

William is a designer of computer games and computer artist with expertise in evolutionary art.

Richard Leinfellner

Richard started in the games business in 1980 and has programmed & produced many top ten games.

Andy Lomas

Andy is an Emmy award-winning computational artist exploring the complex nature of form and the simulation of growth processes.

Andolie Marguerite

Andolie’s current research focus is trans and non-binary young people’s identities.

Dr Dan McQuillan

Dan is a Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Matteo Menapace

Matteo is a technology educator and game designer with interests in the use of games as social interfaces.

Prof Fionn Murtagh

For over 35 years, Fionn has been a leader in the research of clustering and data analysis, computational statistics.

Dr Mihalis Nicolaou

Mihalis' research interests span the areas of machine learning and computer vision.

Dr Nikolay Nikolaev

Nikolay’s recent work is devoted to genetic programming of tree-structured polynomials.

Dr James Ohene-Djan

James is interested in digital entrepreneurial studies, social video technologies, and location-based digital services

Dr Lahcen Ouarbya

Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan

Sylvia has extensive experience working in VR researching Virtual Reality technology and social neuroscience.

Dr Theo Papatheodorou

Theo is interested in generative algorithms, computational art, free software, and the hacker movement.

Phoenix Perry

Phoenix creates physical games and user experiences and is an advocate for women in game development.

Dr Helen Pritchard

As an artist and geographer, Helen’s works across computational aesthetics, geography and feminist technoscience.

Prof Jane Prophet

Jane takes an interdisciplinary approach to work in areas of digital art and media, and art-science collaboration.

Dr Ida Pu

Ida specialises in probabilistic and average case algorithms, data structures and communications and complexity theory.

Dr Lance Putnam

Lance is a composer and researcher, interested in generative art, digital sound synthesis and media signal processing.

Evan Raskob

Evan is an interactive artist whose work investigates live computational and procedural sculpting.

Dr Christophe Rhodes

Christophe’s interests are musical structure and representation and programming language compilation and environments.

Dr Sara Santos

Sara is a mathematician who loves teaching and engaging the public with mathematics, science and engineering.

Prof Andrew Shoben

Andrew is an artist working at the cutting edge of computer technology to create innovative artworks in public spaces.

Dr Daniel Stamate

Daniel’s research interests concern problems and applications involving soft computing and data science.

Prof Atau Tanaka

Atau researches embodied musical interaction, human computer interaction and gestural computer music performance.

Philip Tarr

Prof Stephen Todd

Stephen works on the Mutator VR project, finding applications for it in biological visualisation and digital art.

Patrick Tresset

Patrick is a French artist and scientist using “clumsy robotics” to create autonomous and playful cybernetic entities.

Jamie Ward

Jamie's interests include wearable computing, social neuroscience, and theatre. He is particularly interested in how wearable computing can help to capture and model human activity.

Dr Sarah Wiseman

Sarah’s focusses on human computer interaction, specifically the design of data entry interfaces in hospitals.

Dr Matthew Yee-King

Matthew interests are in education technology, automatic sound synthesizer programming and interactive music systems.

Dr Michael Zbyszyński

Michael is an academic and musician who teaches perception and multimedia computing, and electroacoustic music.

Prof Robert Zimmer

Robert specialises in AI, safety-critical systems, humanities computing, and digital multimedia with applications.

Alan Zucconi

Alan Zucconi is a passionate lecturer and developer, currently working in the intersection between Creativity and Education.