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Professor Roger Whitaker

Professor Roger Whitaker

Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Enterprise, Professor of Collective Intelligence

Email
whitakerrm@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)29 2087 6999
Campuses
2.48, Abacws, Senghennydd Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4AG
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

I am the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research Innovation and Enterprise at Cardiff University and a member of the University's Executive Board.

My personal research and innovation agenda concerns the intersection of human and machine intelligence. This includes:

  • using computation and data to understand human behaviour and cooperation;
  • human-machine interaction and decision-making through networks, apps and games;
  • the future of AI, creativity and innovation.

This work is interdisciplinary, including engineering, sociology and psychology. Funders including IBM and EPSRC support my current research.

Biography

Recent roles and projects include:

  • Academic Director of Supercomputing Wales – a £19 Million collaboration between The Universities of Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff and Swansea, that provides Wales with a national research facility for simulation and AI. This supports the EPSRC CDT in AI, Machine Learning and Advanced Computing.
  • Co-director of Data Innovation Accelerator, a £3.6 Million project supported by European Regional Development funding (2019-2021) to provide collaborations on Data Science and AI projects for over 40 businesses. This funding supported a team of data scientists and staff for outreach and knowledge exchange.
  • Project leader for the US/UK Distributed Analytics and Information Sciences International Technology Alliance (DAIS ITA, 2016-2021) funded by the US & UK Governments and led by IBM. Leadership of the Evolution of Human Systems projects in collaboration with Penn State, Yale and University of Massachusetts.
  • Proponent of the Cardiff University Data Science Academy (2017), which was launched in 2019 to support the next generation of expertise in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.
  • Former Dean of Research for the College of Physical Sciences and Engineering, (2012-2021), supporting Pro-Vice Chancellors in research management and strategy across seven disciplines. This included submission of REF2014 and REF2021.
  • Leadership of the interdisciplinary FP7 EC SOCIALNETS project, focused on exploiting social networking for adaptive networking;
  • Leadership of the interdisciplinary FP7 EC RECOGNITION project, concerning cognitive approaches supporting self-awareness in autonomic systems.
  • Head of the School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University (January 2009 - Septenber 2013), managing the School's redevelopment to include Informatics, taught programme redevelopment and research group restructuring.

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Recent research highlights include:

I'm currently prioritising approaches to innovation through human and machine intelligence. These directions build on longstanding interests in social networks, cognition and evolutionary approaches to problem solving in engineering.

Supervision