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Professor Nigel Shadbolt
Overview
Professor Nigel Shadbolt is co-founder, Director and Chairman of Epistemics. He is Professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the
Department of Electronics and Computer
Science at Southampton University. For fifteen years, Nigel was Director of the AI
Group at the University of Nottingham where he established an international
reputation for work in Knowledge Engineering. This centred on developing methods,
tools and techniques to support the construction of knowledge-based systems. Nigel was
President of the British Computer Society from 2007 to 2008.
Research
Nigel is the Director of the
Advanced Knowledge
Technologies (AKT) project. This is an eight million pound, six-year research
programme that is pursuing basic and applied research in the provision of
technologies to support Knowledge Management and realise the promise of the
Semantic Web.
The AKT project has attracted additional funding including two
grants for which Nigel is also the Principal Investigator. The
first of these (CoAKTinG) is
investigating the use of knowledge technologies in a collaborative context using
multicast videoconference technologies such as the Access Grid. The second (MIAKT) is attempting to support medical
decision-making through the use of AKT’s tools, methods and techniques.
He is also an investigator on an e-Science project GEODISE where he is
directing the effort to integrate knowledge engineering methods into design optimisation tasks that
exploit Grid computing. He is also working on a Hewlett-Packard sponsored project ANNA that aims to
develop a framework within which software agents can be furnished with knowledge
acquisition capabilities.
Publications
Nigel has published some 170 articles on various facets of AI,
and has written and co-edited four books (including the CommonKADS textbook). Since 1985, Nigel, has
singly or jointly, secured and directed 26 research grants worth over
£15,500,000. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and in 2002 was
elected a Vice-President of the Society and Chair of its Knowledge Services
Board.
Positions
Nigel is a former President of the
British Computer Society. He is Emeritus Editor
in Chief of IEEE
Intelligent Systems, an Associate Editor of the International Journal
for Human Computer Systems and on the editorial board of the Knowledge Engineering Review.
Nigel has been an invited lecturer at numerous national and
international conferences; he has been programme and technical chairman of a
number of conferences and workshops. He is a member of various national
committees including; the Human Sciences and Technology Sub-Committee of the UK
Defence Scientific Advisory Committee (DSAC), the UK e-Science Technical
Advisory Committee (TAG).
Commercial Work
In 1993, Nigel co-founded Epistemics Ltd. Since then, he has taken an active role
as a Director and as Chairman of Epistemics. He has also acted as a consultant
to a wide range of companies and organisations.
Further Information
For more information, please visit Nigel's
university homepage.
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