He has joined Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é from Imperial College London where he was Vice-Provost for Research and Enterprise.
Professor Jennings is an internationally-recognised authority in the areas of AI, autonomous systems, cyber-security and agent-based computing.
He is a member of the UK government’s , the of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and chair of the Before Imperial, Professor Jennings was the UK's first (a post bestowed by the monarch to recognise exceptionally high quality research) and the UK Government’s first for National Security.
Professor Jennings’ personal 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 effectively engineering systems that contain both humans and software agents. He is passionate about the real-world impact of research and has been involved with deployments of systems in domains such as business process management, smart energy systems, defence, telecommunications, sensor networks, disaster response and citizen science. He is also involved with a number of start-ups including , , , and .
In undertaking this research, Professor Jennings has attracted grant income of £33 million, published 680 articles (with over co-authors) and graduated over 50 PhD students (including two winners and one runner-up of the ). With and an h-index of , he is one of the world's most cited computer scientists. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the and a founding director of the .
Professor Jennings was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath () in the Queen’s New Year Honours List in 2016 for his services to computer science and national security science. He has received a number of prestigious awards for his research including the the , and the .
He is a Fellow of the , the , the , the , the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (), the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (), the , the , the German AI Institute () and the and a member of .
As a winner of the 2020 Lovelace Medal, Professor Jennings will give the BCS Lovelace Lecture, entitled Multiagent systems: The Dream, the Reality, on 12th October 2021, 4-6pm. For further information and to book a place, please visit the University’s events listings.