Professor Michael Wooldridge

Mike is a Senior Research Fellow at Hertford and is currently Head of the Department of Computer Science. His research on Artificial Intelligence concerns the use of formal techniques for reasoning about multiagent systems. He is particularly interested in the computational aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested computational systems. His current research is at the intersection of logic, computational complexity and game theory, and is focused around the problem of identifying and managing the equilibria of game-like concurrent programmes. He has presented his research on AI around the world, including twice at the House of Lords Select Committee, and he is widely recognised as one of the global leading figures in Artificial Intelligence research.

Dr Andreas Galanis

Andreas first studied at the University of Athens, before taking his PhD at Georgia Tech University in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization. He was recently a postdoctoral researcher in the Oxford Department of Computer Science, looking at computational complexity. His research focuses on the interplay between approximate counting/sampling problems in computer science and phase transitions in statistical physics. Andreas joined Hertford in Autumn 2018 as our inaugural Tutorial Fellow in Computer Science.

Professor Peter Millican

Peter originally studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Lincoln College, but changed to Philosophy and Theology, graduating in 1980. Following graduate study in Oxford and Leeds, he returned to Oxford in 2005 as Gilbert Ryle Fellow in Philosophy at Herford College. His principal research focuses on the philosophies of David Hume, but he has spent much of his career also examining the links between computer science and philosophy, and is currently a member of both faculties at Oxford. Peter was instrumental in setting up the joint course on Computer Science and Philosophy, and continues to play a central role in marrying these two subjects together. He is actively engaged in a variety of outreach projects, including the annual UK Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge which takes place at Hertford.

Computer Science Junior Research Fellowship

Thanks to the generosity of a donor, Hertford has been able to appoint a Junior Research Fellowship in Machine Learning for a three-year post. Since starting at Hertford, Dr Andrew Cropper has published a paper introducing the first machine learning algorithm, which won the best paper award at the 28th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, as well as a theoretical paper on derivation reduction of metarules in meta-interpretive learning. His research also looks at machine learning of the logical rules of games, such as checkers and chess, from examples of people playing the games.

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