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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.

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

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

☎: + 44 (0) 1784 443421

Main contact points

Head of Department: Carlos Matos

Undergraduate admissions: admissions

Postgraduate taught (MSc) admissions: CompSciHelpdesk

Postgraduate research (PhD) admissions: phd-admissions

Directory

 

Name
Job title
Room

Angeliki Koutsoukou Argyraki

Lecturer

Bedford 1-14

Nicolò Colombo

Senior Lecturer

Bedford 2-21

David Tena Cucala

Lecturer

 

Argyrios Deligkas

Senior Lecturer

Bedford 1-20

Eduard Eiben

Lecturer

Bedford 1-18

Matteo Fontana

Lecturer

Bedford 1-14

Francisco Ferreira Ruiz

Lecturer

McCrea 0-21

Santiago Franco Aixela

Lecturer

Bedford 1-11

Alex Gammerman

Professor, Co-Director of the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning

Bedford 2-18

Gregory Gutin

Professor, Member of Academia Europea, Fellow of AAIA

Digraphs, Algorithms, Access control

Bedford 2-12

Matthew Hague

Professor, Director of the Centre for Programming Languages and Systems

Formal Methods, Infinite-State Systems

Bedford 2-08

DongGyun Han

Lecturer

McCrea 0-14

Adrian Johnstone

Professor

Generalised parsing, Formal semantics, Programming language design

Bedford 2-15

Yuri Kalnishkan

Reader

Machine learning, Prediction, Universal algorithms, Applications in Finance

Bedford 2-28

Giorgios Koutsoukos

Senior Lecturer, CEO of Code Groovers

Software engineering methodologies, IT project management

Bedford 1-21

Julien Lange

Senior Lecturer

Programming languages, concurrency, and verification

Bedford 2-09

Zhaohui Luo

Professor

Bedford 2-32

Zhiyuan Luo

Professor

Bedford 2-27

Carlos Matos

Professor, Head of Department

Software engineering, Software evolution and reengineering

Bedford 1-22

Khuong An Nguyen

Senior Lecturer

Machine Learning, AI, Mobile Computing

Bedford 2-10

Dan O'Keeffe

Senior Lecturer

Distributed systems, Systems security

Bedford 1-25

Alberto Paccanaro

Professor, Director of the Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology

Bedford 1-11

Stephen Piddock

Lecturer

McCrea 0-10

Ivan Rungger

Professor

 

Reuben Rowe

Senior Lecturer

Bedford 2-13

Matteo Sammartino

Senior Lecturer

Formal Methods, Learning-based Verification

Bedford 2-07

Elizabeth Scott

Professor

Generalised parsing, Formal semantics, Programming language design

Bedford 2-14

Farid Shahandeh

Lecturer

Bedford 2-25

Hugh Shanahan

Professor, Director of Student Experience (School and Department)

Bedford 2-26

Ezekiel Soremekun

Lecturer

McCrea 0-13

Kostas Stathis

Professor

Artificial Intelligence, Multi-agent Systems, Computational Logic

Bedford 2-22

Anand Subramoney

Lecturer

McCrea 0-24

Volodya Vovk

Professor, Co-Director of the Centre for Reliable Machine Learning

Bedford 2-20

Magnus Wahlström

Professor, Director of the Centre for Algorithms and Complexity

Parameterized Complexity, Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Bedford 2-11

Chris Watkins

Professor

Bedford 2-29

Li Zhang

Professor

Bedford 2-23

Name
Room

Vasudha Darbari

McCrea 0-32

Erjill De Vera

Bedford 1-26

Christos Dexiades

Bedford 1-19

Tiger-Lily Goldsmith

Bedford 1-19

Ilia Nouretdinov

Bedford 1-26

Swasti Sharma

McCrea 0-32

Susnas Sourjah

McCrea 0-32

Amanda Warren

Bedford 1-19

 

Alex Clark

Honorary Research Fellow

Helen Balinsky

Visiting Professor

Dave Cohen

Emeritus 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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