Head of Computing Department
Goldsmiths, University of London
London SE14 6NW
United Kingdom
Mark d’Inverno holds an MA and MSc in Mathematics from Oxford University and a PhD from University College London in Artificial Intelligence. He is Professor of Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London and for four years between 2007 and 2011 was head of the Department of Computing which has championed interdisciplinary research and teaching around computers and creativity for nearly a decade. He has published over 100 articles (with an H-index of 29 according to Google Scholar) including books, journal and conference articles and led research projects in a diverse range of fields relating to computer science including multi-agent systems, systems biology, art, music and and social media. He is currently enjoying a research sabbatical as visiting fellow at the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute Barcelona of the Spanish Research Council and at Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. He was for fourteen years a trustee and the chair of the charity Safeground which championed intensive courses designed by prisoners that have run in over 40 UK prisons around increasing self-development and strengthening family relationships. He is also a critically acclaimed jazz pianist in the UK and over the last 20 years has led a variety of successful bands in a range of different musical genres. For the last ten years he has been a captain of the weekenders cricket club.