Dame Wendy Hall is Regius Professor of Computer Science, Pro Vice-Chancellor (International Engagement) and is an Executive Director of the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, was co-Chair of the UK government’s AI Review (2017) and has recently been announced by the UK government as the first Skills Champion for AI in the UK. 

Areas of Interest 

Development of Web technologies (particularly the Semantic Web), hypermedia systems and link services, advanced knowledge technologies, digital libraries, decentralised information systems, human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, Web Science 

Affiliations 

The Alan Turing Institute: Scientific Advisory Board; The Digital Catapult: Non-Executive Director; The Institute of Coding: Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Board; Office for AI: AI Council Member; The Royal Society: Fellow; The Royal Academy of Engineering: Fellow 

Twitter: @DameWendyDBE