Our people

We're leading academics in the fields of web science, data science and artificial intelligence research.

Directors

Director

Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science

Deputy directors

Associate directors

Visiting professors and fellows

Tom Barnett, Visiting Fellow, entrepreneur and pioneer in the field of web technology
Professor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Honorary Professor, inventor of the World Wide Web and Founding Director of the World Wide Web Foundation
Dr Vinton G Cerf, Visiting Professor, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google
Liam Maxwell, Visiting Professor, Director of Government Transformation at Amazon Web Services
Dr Kieron O'Hara, Emeritus Fellow, philosopher, computer scientist and political writer
JP Rangaswami, Visiting Professor, Chair of the Web Science Trust board of trustees
Mr Pete Rai, Adjunct Fellow, Principle Engineer, Cisco
Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt, Visiting Professor, Principal of Jesus College, University of Oxford
Dr Jeni Tennison, Visiting Professor, Director of Connected by Data
Dr Phil Tetlow, Visiting Professor, Chief Architect at IBM Software Group
Bill Thompson, Visiting Professor, Principal Research Engineer, BBC

Management

Courtney Lee, Collaboration Manager
Claire Wilkins, AI@Southampton Manager
Louise Payne, Research and Enterprise Marketing and Communications Manager
Alistair Sackley, Specialist Policy Officer

Administrative support

Samantha Collins, Senior Administrator
Nichola Need, Senior Administrator

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