Professor Jennings is Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University.
He is also the Vice-President for Fellowship Engagement at the Royal Academy of Engineering and was previously the Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise at Imperial College London, the UK Government’s first Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security, and the inaugural Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
His research focuses on developing AI systems for large-scale, open and dynamic environments. In particular, he is interested in how to endow individual autonomous agents with the ability to act and interact in flexible ways and with effective engineering systems that contain both humans and software agents. He is one of the world's most highly cited computer scientists and his research has been deployed to save lives in the aftermath of disasters, to win Olympic medals for TeamGB, and to monitor the impact of climate change on glaciers. He has been involved in a number of start-ups in the AI and cyber security area.
The thing I love most about my job is interacting with our amazing staff and students and creating an environment in which they can flourish and make a positive impact on society and the planet. By working together with our partners, we can make lives better at a local, national and international scale.