Professor directory

Computer science professors in the United Kingdom

30 computer science professors in the United Kingdom, at 12 universities. The most represented are University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. 5 of them are verified faculty: their current appointment was confirmed against their own university's pages or a current faculty record in ORCID, and they are listed first.

The list is built from open publication data (OpenAlex and ORCID), the same data ProfScout uses in the app: actively publishing faculty at the largest research universities in the United Kingdom whose recent work sits in computer science. Retired, trainee and staff-scientist records are filtered out where the public record identifies them. It is not a prestige ranking: professors are listed by how prominently computer science figures in their published work, verified faculty first. Reply-fit scores, which weigh how likely each professor is to answer a student's email, are computed for your own profile inside ProfScout. Updated September 2026; the list is rebuilt from the open record a few times a year.

  1. Garrett M. MorrisVerified faculty
    University of Oxford
    Computer Science · Computational Theory and Mathematics
    Computational Drug Discovery MethodsMachine Learning in Materials Science
    Recent: Interpreting graph neural networks with Myerson values for cheminformatics approaches (2026)
  2. Andrea VedaldiVerified faculty
    University of Oxford
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Advanced Vision and ImagingAdvanced Neural Network ApplicationsHuman Pose and Action Recognition
    Recent: Go-with-the-Track: Video Compositing and Motion Control with Point Tracking (2026)
  3. Gábor CśanyiVerified faculty
    University of Cambridge
    Materials Science · Materials Chemistry
    Machine Learning in Materials ScienceAdvanced Chemical Physics StudiesProtein Structure and Dynamics
    Recent: Research data supporting "Design Space of Self--Consistent Electrostatic Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials". (2026)
  4. Yee Whye TehVerified faculty
    University of Oxford
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Neural Networks and ApplicationsMachine Learning and Data Classification
    Recent: Enhancing large language model reasoning with reward models: an analytical survey (2026)
  5. Randy J. ReadVerified faculty
    University of Cambridge
    Materials Science · Materials Chemistry
    Enzyme Structure and FunctionAdvanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and ApplicationsProtein Structure and Dynamics
    Recent: Scotty : lattice coincidences in the Protein Data Bank (2026)
  6. Mirella Lapata
    University of Edinburgh
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Natural Language Processing TechniquesTopic ModelingMultimodal Machine Learning Applications
  7. Mark J. Steedman
    University of Edinburgh
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Natural Language Processing TechniquesTopic ModelingSpeech and dialogue systems
  8. John S. Shawe-Taylor
    University College London
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Neural Networks and ApplicationsMachine Learning and AlgorithmsFace and Expression Recognition
  9. Christopher K. I. Williams
    University of Edinburgh
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Neural Networks and ApplicationsGaussian Processes and Bayesian InferenceAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  10. Michael Collins
    King's College London
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Natural Language Processing TechniquesSynthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and TechniquesArctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
    Recent: Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of A Nation – this documentary can’t reconcile nostalgia with the true contemporary US (2025)
  11. Philip H. S. Torr
    University of Oxford
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningMultimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsAdvanced Neural Network Applications
    Recent: Unforgotten Safety: Preserving Safety Alignment of Large Language Models with Continual Learning (2025)
  12. Mark Harman
    University College London
    Computer Science · Software
    Software Testing and Debugging TechniquesSoftware Engineering ResearchSoftware Reliability and Analysis Research
  13. Dragan Gašević
    University of Edinburgh
    Computer Science · Computer Science Applications
    Online Learning and AnalyticsInnovative Teaching and Learning MethodsOnline and Blended Learning
  14. Anthony J. Steed
    University College London
    Computer Science · Human-Computer Interaction
    Virtual Reality Applications and ImpactsAugmented Reality ApplicationsInteractive and Immersive Displays
  15. Andreas Bender
    University of Cambridge
    Computer Science · Computational Theory and Mathematics
    Computational Drug Discovery MethodsCell Image Analysis TechniquesMachine Learning in Materials Science
    Recent: Beyond the drug-centric view: Advancing AI virtual cell platforms for environmental perturbation modelling (2026)
  16. Aggelos Kiayias
    University of Edinburgh
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Blockchain Technology Applications and SecurityDistributed systems and fault toleranceCryptography and Data Security
    Recent: Decentralized Reliability Estimation for Low-Latency Mixnets (2026)
  17. Nicholas D. Lane
    University of Cambridge
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsContext-Aware Activity Recognition SystemsMobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
  18. Amos Storkey
    University of Edinburgh
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningAdvanced Neural Network ApplicationsNeural Networks and Applications
  19. Graham Cormode
    University of Oxford
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Advanced Database Systems and QueriesData Management and AlgorithmsPrivacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
  20. Robert Charles Glen
    University of Cambridge
    Computer Science · Computational Theory and Mathematics
    Computational Drug Discovery MethodsMetabolomics and Mass Spectrometry StudiesAnalytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  21. Ming‐Wei Chang
    University of Ulster
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing TechniquesElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
  22. Arthur Gretton
    University College London
    Mathematics · Artificial Intelligence
    Statistical Methods and InferenceGaussian Processes and Bayesian InferenceNeural Networks and Applications
  23. David A. Wood
    King's College London
    Computer Science · Hardware and Architecture
    Parallel Computing and Optimization TechniquesArtificial Intelligence in Healthcare and EducationSecond Language Acquisition and Learning
  24. Sophia Ananiadou
    University of Manchester
    Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Artificial Intelligence
    Topic ModelingBiomedical Text Mining and OntologiesNatural Language Processing Techniques
    Recent: OBESITY, CLINICAL VASCULAR RISK AND GENDER-DRIVEN DIFFERENCES IN HYPERTENSION BEHAVIOR AND THERAPY IN RURAL GREECE (2026)
  25. Danilo P. Mandic
    Imperial College London
    Computer Science · Signal Processing
    EEG and Brain-Computer InterfacesNeural Networks and ApplicationsAdvanced Adaptive Filtering Techniques
    Recent: Surviving Resource-constraint Compression: Capability Retention under Tensor-train Decomposition for Sub-billion Parameter Language Models (2026)
  26. Norbert Schmitt
    University of Nottingham
    Psychology · Developmental and Educational Psychology
    Second Language Acquisition and LearningLexicography and Language StudiesNatural Language Processing Techniques
    Recent: Time to adopt a more sophisticated perspective of vocabulary knowledge and acquisition (2026)
  27. Huiyu Zhou
    University of Leicester
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Video Surveillance and Tracking MethodsAdvanced Neural Network ApplicationsAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  28. Roderick E. Hubbard
    University of York
    Computer Science · Molecular Biology
    Computational Drug Discovery MethodsEnzyme Structure and FunctionProtein Structure and Dynamics
  29. Stephen John Roberts
    University of Oxford
    Computer Science · Artificial Intelligence
    Gaussian Processes and Bayesian InferenceStock Market Forecasting MethodsBlind Source Separation Techniques
    Recent: Learning Domain-Robust Bioacoustic Representations for Mosquito Species Classification with Contrastive Learning and Distribution Alignment (2026)
  30. Jungong Han
    University of Warwick
    Computer Science · Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningAdvanced Neural Network ApplicationsMultimodal Machine Learning Applications
    Recent: Di$^2$CycleSB: Towards High-Quality Unsupervised Nighttime Visibility Enhancement via Schrödinger Bridge Transformer (2026)

Universities on this list: University of Edinburgh (6) · University of Oxford (6) · University of Cambridge (5) · University College London (4) · King's College London (2) · Imperial College London (1) · University of Leicester (1) · University of Manchester (1) · University of Nottingham (1) · University of Ulster (1) · University of Warwick (1) · University of York (1)

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